FG /states to collaborate for turnaround of economy, says- Lokpobiri

Heineken Lokpobiri

The Federal Government is collaborating with interested states through the Rural Access and Mobility Project (RAMP-3) as vehicle to actualize the speedy turnaround of our economy. This was made known in a press release issued by Deputy Director, Information, in the ministry, Mrs. A.B. Lere-Adams,

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Minister of state for Agriculture and Rural Development, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri reportedly said this while declaring open a National Sensitization workshop on the selection of states to participate in the third rural access and mobility project in Abuja.        

He said that evident achievements of the implementation of these activities in Kaduna and Cross River states in RAMP-1 and five states in RAMP-2 were encouraging and that the interest being shown by more states to participate in the RAMP project has necessitated the scaling up to the 

 third phase. 

He continued that for Government’s effort toward revamping the agriculture sector to impact positively on the about 70 percent of the 193 million Nigerians whose only means of livelihood is agriculture and who also reside in the rural areas, by this RAMP project, there should be improved road accessibility to their farms and markets, address and improve other Socio-Economic amenities such as access road to Primary Health Centers for mother and child, job opportunities for our teeming youths, enhance the LIFE incubation program of the Ministry, 

which will in turn increase farm produce, increase value price and this will in the long run arrest post-harvest losses.