Post Edited: How Buhari, Jonathan, Obasanjo govts failed Nigeria on key agric funding treaty
This year, the federal government plans to spend N183 billion on agriculture, representing 1.73 per cent of the 10.6 trillion national budget.While Nigeria’s agricultural sector struggles to draw more allocation, an analysis of this year’s agriculture budget by PREMIUM TIMES showed that the spending plan contains vague projects, some of which are completely out of the scope of agriculture.
NSPRI, an agency headquartered in Ilorin, Kwara State, has a primary mandate to curb post-harvest loss of crops in Nigeria. But in the 2020 budget, the agency plans to construct “ICT centres” and provide “equipment in selected secondary schools in Lagos.” Other such projects extraneous to agricultural development were discovered in the budgets of River Basin Development Authority , Federal College of Fisheries and Marine Technology, Lagos, Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria , and National Center for Agricultural Mechanisation among others.
INFOGRAPH: How Nigeria perpetually flouted the MAPUTO AGREEMENT signed in 2003. [CREDIT: Kabir Yusuf]
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