NAIC promises training for farmers across the nation

The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, the Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Corporation, Mrs Folashade Joseph, 

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Corporation (NAIC) Mrs Folashade Joseph has promised that all farmers across the nation would be properly trained on using insurance covers as strategy to mitigating losses on farming and maximization of profit in agribusiness.

Mrs. Joseph,  at a training organised for farmers from Nassarawa, Benue, Kwara, Kaduna and FCT held in Abuja, said that crops producers have to be sensitized on the insurance strategy to reduce losses usually encountered during flood and other unexpected mishap to farms or cultivations saying all the local government leaders would be mobilized into this awareness creation for the purpose of profit maximization in the face of climate change challenges.

She said that to sustain the sensitization of farmers on the benefit of farms insurance, NAIC was ready to take the training down to every local government in the country, working alongside the community leaders so as to ensure its effectiveness for farmers to stay in business at the grassroots.     

 The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) director in charge of Agribusiness, Dr. Baye S. Bungwon told foodfarmnews that emphasis is on why farmers should take  agric insurance covers very seriously must be entrenched into farming so as to be able to have a sustainable business that can still exist after any mishap through premium and other compensations payment against vagaries of climate change like flood, pest and diseases outbreak.

He admonished farmers to spread the good news of injecting insurance cover into their agricultural activities for profit maximization in the business adding that NAIC should not relent in its gospel of awareness creation to rural farmers across the entire nation.

On his part the facilitator of the workshop Mr. Ogbu Innocent pointed out that it was important for farmers to be aware of NAIC’s activities saying reports and notification are expected to be made within the 72 hours of any mishap and outbreak for proper confirmation for claim and record purposes. 

He stressed that ‘’ with the 43 NAIC offices situated across the country farmers are not expected to bear their losses alone. When a loss is promptly reported and assessed, payment is made available within two weeks’’