The federal and state governments will spend less than two percent of their N13.5 trillion total budgets this year on agriculture despite their publicised commitment to the sector, Daily Trust investigations have shown.
Analysis of the 2017 combined expenditure of the federal and 30 state governments shows that they will spend N254 billion (1.8 percent) on agriculture.
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