President Muhammadu Buhari |
The Federal Government has kick started the Agricultural Policy
through which it intends to achieve some key targets among which is using women
to unlock food potentials via the launching of a N10
Billion Women in Agriculture Environment Impact Fund (WAEIF) in Abuja. This was made known via a press release issued by the Deputy Director (information) in the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Mrs. A.B.Lere-Adams.
Billion Women in Agriculture Environment Impact Fund (WAEIF) in Abuja. This was made known via a press release issued by the Deputy Director (information) in the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Mrs. A.B.Lere-Adams.
According to the release, President Muhammadu Buhari, represented by the Minister of State, Agriculture and Rural Development Senator, Heineken Lokpobiri, had, while declaring the launching of the fund open said that the challenges of environmental impact has contributed largely to food scarcity in Nigeria added to lack of effective participation of Women in Agriculture created by massive internally displaced agricultural women, insurgency, gas flaring, oil spillage, desert encroachment, flood and other environmental hazards.
He noted that the fund would boost sustainable funding
mechanism for Women in Agriculture which would in turn generate employment and
exchange of ideas in environmental agriculture.
The president commended the Women Association for National Agriculture and Environment Protection (WANAEP) for this effort of fund raising which will positively impact on the on-going process of economic diversification with agriculture as the immediate best alternative key sector. Speaking further, he acknowledged the role of the private sector in solving the core issues of limited food production and the delivery of quality standards which is crucial and significant while Government on the other hand facilitates and provides supportive infrastructures, systems control processes and oversight.
He disclosed that the Government was developing the Staple
Crops Processing Zones (SCPZs) to address the level of infrastructure
challenges that face food processors and attract them into our rural areas.
He added that food manufacturing companies would be
attracted to locate within these zones which are densely populated by women
farmers thereby bringing them closer to farmers and areas of high food
production.
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