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The 2017 National
Council on Agriculture and Rural Development (NCARD) under the steering
chairmanship of the Minister, Chief Audu Ogbeh has approved about nine major proposals
for action implementations for year.
Among is the approval to establish a
national commission for colleges of Agriculture as the permission is given to
the ministry to seek Federal Executive Council (FEC) approval to solicit for
Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) for all colleges including cooperatives
ones.
By this approval, the
colleges of agriculture and cooperatives are to proactively reposition to meet
the need of the Federal Government policy on commercial agriculture in terms of
man power and cooperative farming arrangement that will enhance easy accessibility
of government interventions to farmers as a group.
Also the council mandated
the minister to present the funding case of agriculture and cooperative
colleges before the FEC so as to be able to give directive to TETFUND as
regards education funding to these institutions like others.
Other approvals included
participation of specialized cooperative groups in mechanization business
services, agro inputs delivery to farmers just as national action plan against
highly pathogenic avian influenza with compensation sharing between the federal
and states’ governments was approved.
Approval was also given
to the ministry to embark on the use of electronic agricultural web portal
(NeAWP) to enhance information coverage among stakeholders across the 36 states
of the federation and FCT with implementation of the Financial Inclusion Scheme
for Enterprises in the rural areas nationwide.
Also in the approvals
are that FMARD should put in place action plan to check the incursion of pest
in coconut, cassava, maize and banana with the promotion of information
gathering on agribusiness and investment
in the rural communities across the six geo political zones.
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