The chairman, Board of Trustees, National Agricultural Foundation of Nigeria (NAFN), Senator Abdullahi Adamu, has called on the federal government, through the minister of agriculture and rural development, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, to furnish Nigerians with concrete up to date and correct information, backed with figures and statistics, on all the various aspects of the implementation, achievements and failures of the Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA).
He said this was necessary "in view of the developments in some states like Kebbi where the figures and statistics that had been put in public domain by government are being disputed by the farmers who have been complaining of being abandoned after being made to grow rice."
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