Buhari govt. creates new set of millionaires through farming – Lai Mohammed Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/05/buhari-govt-creates-new-set-millionaires-farming-lai-mohammed/
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Tuesday said that the Buhari-led Federal Government through its agriculture empowerment programme had created new set of millionaires in farming. The minister stated this when he featured on a special edition of Channels TV programme, “Sunrise Daily” on the mid-term report of President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration. Mohammed said that many young farmers were empowered through the Central Bank of Nigeria’s Anchor Borrower Programme and the Federal Ministry of Agriculture’s Soil Map initiative. He said that the programme, which recorded huge success in rice and grain productions, particularly in Kebbi, Kano, Jigawa, Ebonyi and Sokoto states, had made farming attractive to young people. Lai Mohammed Mohammed said the initiative had also helped in boosting the local production of rice, increasing yields per hectares in grains production and reducing importation of rice. He said that in 2015, the country imported 580,000...
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