ABUJA (Min of Agric Report) – The Honourable Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD), Alhaji Muhammad Sabo Nanono, has reiterated Federal Government’s commitment towards a stronger partnership and collaboration between the Amana Farmers and Grains Suppliers Association of Nigeria (AFGSAN), stating that it would boost the Agribusiness Development and Job Creation in Nigeria.
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The Minister disclosed this when the Amana Farmers and Grains Suppliers Association, led by its Chairman, Alhaji Haruna Ahmed Pambegua, paid him a courtesy visit in his office in Abuja, recently.
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Alhaji Sabo Nanono, noted that the partnership would achieve the goal of the current administration’s next level agenda in the Agric Sector and create the desired value chain, promote global market access of Nigerian branded products with massive job creation and increased internally generated revenue for the country.
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In his remark, the Permanent Secretary, FMARD, Dr. Mohammed Umar Bello, thanked the association for doubling their effort towards supporting the current administration’s agenda by buying into the intervention policies of the Federal Government which includes getting farmers back to farms and ensuring that they produce more grain for the market and create jobs.
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In his welcome address, Alhaji Haruna Ahmed Pambegua, applauded President Muhammadu Buhari on his agricultural agenda and vision of making the agricultural sector the biggest employer of labour in Nigeria.
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He added that with strategic linkage of processing and marketing of products, it would reduce Nigeria’s huge income inequality, boost production and economic activities in the rural areas.
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The visit had in attendance, 36 State Chairmen of the Amana Farmers and Grains Suppliers Association of Nigeria (AFGSAN) and other official members.
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Abdulahad A. Nawani
For: Director, Information (FMARD)
