Senator. Heinekan Lokpobiri |
Effort towards ensuring food security using the ingenuity
of the youths garnered momentum as African Development Bank (AFDB) has
concluded arrangement to inject a total of 12.5 billion dollar to supporting
younger ones going into agricultural business.
In a fine tuning workshop organized at Transcorp Hilton
Hotel, Abuja where prospect countries and youths across the African continent
under the IITA youth in agriculture (agripreneur) gathered to brainstorm for
the way forward to better utilization of the fund availability towards achieving
food security and empowerment contents of the loan objectives as perceived by
AFDB was the President of AFDB, Dr. AkinwunmiAdesina unveiled the plan saying
each participating countries would leverage 0.5 billion dollar as counterpart
funding.
The loan project is anchoring on the IITA youth
agricpreneur of incubator strategies of competent skill training in a very
holistic manner of taking agriculture as business venture from production,
processing, marketing and value addition with best global standard practice
with packaging.
Many critical issue hindering agricultural development
were observed and deliberated upon for the purpose of effectiveness of the loan
injection towards achieving its intended purposes in all the participating
countries of Africa with the minister of state Agric Nigeria Senator. Heinekan Lokpobiri saying during the
press briefing that policy summersault would not marr the sector this time
around stressed that access to finance agriculture was very challenging in
Africa cum international policy that we must stand up against towards rescuing
our economic future.
The strong voices of the youths present gave a sounding
assurance that the money would not be a waste as they are ready to upscale the
economic responsibility for the entire African continent with continuous
support from the governments in terms of right legislation to effective policy
without any summersault of 18 months training for each youths.
Among the countries participating are Benin Republic,
Burundi, Cameroon, Cote-Viore, DRC, Ghana, Bussua, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar,
Mali, Malawi, Mauritania, Moroco, Mazambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal,
serra-leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda and Zambia.
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