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    FG kicks off Agriculture for Food and Job Plan

    Chronicle EditorBy Chronicle EditorJuly 23, 2020No Comments2 Mins Read
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    Vice President Yemi Osinbajo submits the Sustainability Plan to President Muhammadu Buhari Agriculture for Food and Job Plan
    FILE: Vice President Yemi Osinbajo submits the National Economic Sustainability Plan to President Muhammadu Buhari
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    The Federal Government has launched the Agriculture for Food and Job Plan, AFJP, the agriculture component of the Nigeria Economic and Sustainability Plan (NESP) targeting smallholder farmers.

    The project would mitigate the negative impact of COVID-19 on the economy and livelihoods of farmers by creating more access to food for and the rapid emergence of a competitive food production, processing and distribution in Nigeria.

    The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Muhammad Nanono stated this during the official launch of the Agriculture for Food and Job Plan (AFJP) in Funtua, Katsina state on Thursday.

    Alhaji Nanono informed that President Muhammadu Buhari set up an Economic Sustainability Committee (ESC) chaired by the Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo to fashion out a plan on COVID -19 intervention.

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    Alhaji Nanono said one of the strategies adopted by the Committee is the Agriculture for Food and Job Plan (AFJP), stating that the programme will aid the transformation of the Nigerian agriculture from its largely low yielding and subsistence state to a high yielding technology based farming system.

    The Minister said that the plan, “is also in tandem with the three pronged action plan of the Ministry to deal with the impact of the pandemic on Nigerian agriculture and farmers”.

    In his goodwill message, chairman, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, stressed that the agriculture sector is the bedrock of the economy and appreciated President Buhari for his visionary policies in the agriculture sector.

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