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Nigeria: 18 Cooperatives in Bayelsa Receive N6m Loans
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Leadership (Abuja)
25 March 2008
Posted to the web 25 March 2008
Osa Okhomina
Yenagoa
Bayelsa Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Mr Abel Ziniye, has said that 18 Co-operative groups have benefited from various loans totaling N6.315 million from the state government.
Ziniye told journalists in Yenagoa that the facilities granted to the Cooperative groups was part of the determination of the state government to boost agricultural activities in Bayelsa.
"Government would revitalise the dwindling national economy by encouraging private/public sector partnership in agriculture," he said.
He said that revamping the agricultural sector would empower farmers and other large-scale entrepreneurs to produce, process and market agricultural products.
Ziniye said that due to the importance government attached to agriculture, the state government had paid N177 million as counterpart fund for the tripartite funded programmes in agriculture.
The commissioner stressed that such programmes included the Root and Tuber Expansion Programme (RTEP), the National Programme for Food Security, the Fadama Development project, and the community-based National Resources Management Programme.
He, however, charged the benefiting farmers to use the opportunity to increase the hectares of their farms to produce enough food for the state.
Speaking in the same vein, the state programme manager of the Agricultural Development Programme (ADP), Mr Francis Alagoa, said that the overall objective of the RTEP programme was to achieve sustainable increase in the production of root and tuber crops such as cassava, yam, cocoyam and sweet potatoes, as well as their end products.
Alagoa stated that agro-processing and marketing of the end products of root and tuber were also supported by the programme and appealed to the beneficiaries of the loan to also play their roles well.
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One of the beneficiaries, Mrs Asoye Igwe, who spoke with newsmen commended the ADP for its dedication to the development of agriculture in the state.
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