The Federal Government 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).
BusinessDay gathered that submission of the report marked the conclusion of the programme’s design phase and its transition to implementation.
Vice President Kashim Shettima, who announced this on Tuesday, said the Government, through the AGROW programme, is bridging the gap between farmers and national planning as well as policy making decisions at the centre.
Stanley Nkwocha, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Communications, Office of the Vice President, in statement, quoted the Vice President to have noted the challenge in the agricultural sector, acknowledging the distance between farmers who till the earth and the systems that determine what their labour is worth.
The US$500 million World Bank-supported programme was developed through seven zonal consultations involving 32 States, reflecting the increasing commitment of subnational governments to agricultural development and their readiness to assume greater responsibility for productivity, infrastructure, extension services and market development.
