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).
This was disclosed by Vice President Kashim Shettima at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Tuesday.
Mr Shettima noted that the receipt of the final report marks the conclusion of the programme’s design phase and its transition to implementation.
He said the government, through the AGROW programme, is bridging the gap between farmers and national planning and policy-making decisions at the centre.
The VP noted that while the challenge in the agricultural sector had been the distance between farmers who till the earth and the systems that determine what their labour is worth, the government is set to implement the process of shortening that distance.
