The National President of the Community Allied farmers’ Association (COMFAS) Mr. Austin Maduka |
The National President of the Community Allied farmers’
Association (COMFAS) Mr. Austin Maduka has assured the nation the preparedness
of his members to ensuring food security through doing farming with the global
agricultural practice saying honesty and transparency shall be the hallmark.
Speaking during the first national executive meeting of the
association in Abuja last week, Mr. Austin Maduka pointed that the association
was already working with major stakeholders at the value chains of agriculture
that would ensure positive impact to the farmers at the grassroots towards
ensuring food security using best practices of inputs and technologies for
market competitiveness.
Mr. Maduka said that the association was already partnering
with major input suppliers and financial institutions towards ensuring timely
delivery of benefits to members for the development of agriculture and food
security in country, thereby urging all the states chairmen to ensure honesty
and transparency that would not betray any trust.
He expressed the readiness of the association to change the
face of doing things among farmers rightly saying every farmer in the
association would be entitled to a certified land for cultivation, and thereby
solving the issue of bank collateral for loan.
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