FG Targets 8m Farmers For 2014 GES
— March 24, 2014
In pursuasion of the Agricultural Transformation Agenda(ATA)
the Federal government through the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural
Development has said it is targetting eight million (8m) registered
farmers for the 2014 Growth Enhancement Support (GES) programme.
The GES programme is an innitiative of the federal government to supply fertilisers and high-yielding seeds and inputs to individual farmers using their phones or the electronic wallet system.
This was revealed by the director of Fertiliser, Mr Akinbolawa Osho at a press briefing in Abuja at the weekend, to announce the Roll Out of the 2014 Wet Season GES programme in the Southern parts of the country.
According to Akinbolawa, “Even though 10.5 million farmers have been registered from 2012 till date and are all entitled to access the GES, FG is nonetheless targetting not less than 8 million and definitely not more than 10million farmers for the 2014 GES across the federation including Borno, Yobe and Adamawa.”
The director revealed that the Roll Out season which is set to be carried out in 2 phases will begin on Monday, March 24 and run for seven days across the Southern states, while the 2nd phase is set to commence on the first week of April across the central states, including Kogi, Kwara and Taraba whose ecologies are similar to those of the South.
He said “The need to target 8 million farmers followed the need to revalidate the data of registered farmers across the states to ensure that registered farmers are indeed residents of their localities.”
The director revealed that “For the 2014 wet season for food crops, farmers will pay only 10% of the total value, while the FG and states government will bridge the balance for farmers to access two 12.5kg of rice and 2 10.kg of maize as against cash crops farmers who will be expected to pay 20% of the total cost.”
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The GES programme is an innitiative of the federal government to supply fertilisers and high-yielding seeds and inputs to individual farmers using their phones or the electronic wallet system.
This was revealed by the director of Fertiliser, Mr Akinbolawa Osho at a press briefing in Abuja at the weekend, to announce the Roll Out of the 2014 Wet Season GES programme in the Southern parts of the country.
According to Akinbolawa, “Even though 10.5 million farmers have been registered from 2012 till date and are all entitled to access the GES, FG is nonetheless targetting not less than 8 million and definitely not more than 10million farmers for the 2014 GES across the federation including Borno, Yobe and Adamawa.”
The director revealed that the Roll Out season which is set to be carried out in 2 phases will begin on Monday, March 24 and run for seven days across the Southern states, while the 2nd phase is set to commence on the first week of April across the central states, including Kogi, Kwara and Taraba whose ecologies are similar to those of the South.
He said “The need to target 8 million farmers followed the need to revalidate the data of registered farmers across the states to ensure that registered farmers are indeed residents of their localities.”
The director revealed that “For the 2014 wet season for food crops, farmers will pay only 10% of the total value, while the FG and states government will bridge the balance for farmers to access two 12.5kg of rice and 2 10.kg of maize as against cash crops farmers who will be expected to pay 20% of the total cost.”
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