Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Bank of Agriculture, Ayo Sotinrin
No fewer than 5,642 smallholder farmers in Gombe State have benefited from the Federal Government’s Renewed Hope Smallholder Support and Value Chain Fund following the flag-off of the distribution of fertilisers and other agricultural inputs for the 2026 wet farming season.
The programme, implemented by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security in collaboration with the Bank of Agriculture and Algir Integrated Services Limited, is aimed at boosting food production, improving farmers’ access to quality inputs and strengthening agricultural value chains across the country.
Our correspondent reports that the Renewed Hope Smallholder Support and Value Chain Fund is one of the Federal Government’s flagship agricultural interventions under the Renewed Hope Agenda, designed to improve access to quality farm inputs, affordable financing, extension services, aggregation and structured market opportunities for smallholder farmers across Nigeria.
The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Bank of Agriculture, Ayo Sotinrin, who was represented at the event by Hajiya Rabi Kabir, described the initiative as a major intervention designed to ensure Nigerian farmers no longer bear the burden of agricultural production alone.
