FG Receives Final Report on $500m Sustainable Agricultural Value Chains for Growth Programme

• Shettima: Project’ll bridge gap between farmers and national economic planning, policy makers

Deji Elumoye in Abuja

Nigeria has received the final report of the National Technical Working Group on the World Bank-supported $500 million Sustainable Agricultural Value Chains for Growth Programme (AGROW), marking the conclusion of the programme’s design phase and its transition to implementation.

Vice President Kashim Shettima said government, through the AGROW programme, was bridging the gap between farmers and national planning as well as policy decisions at the centre.

Speaking on Tuesday when he received the report during a briefing at State House, Abuja, Shettima stated that while the challenge in the agricultural sector had been the distance between farmers, who tilled the earth, and the systems that determined what their labour was worth, the government was set to implement the process of shortening the distance.