Eye on Kebbi dry season farming

Our attention has been drawn to a publication titled “Eye on Kebbi Dry Season
Farming” published in the Daily Trust edition of 8th March, 2016. For the avoidance of doubt, the publication falsely and purportedly quoted the Chairman of State’s Program Implementation Committee, Alh. Garba Dandiga, who pointedly denied ever granting an interview to the writer on the program.

Understanding CBN’s Anchor Borrowers’ Programme

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Festus Akanbi examines the dynamics of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s Anchor Borrowers’ Programme launched last week, saying the effort, which is part of the CBN’s development agenda will not only create millions of jobs but that it is also capable of lifting thousands of small holder farmers out of poverty

Last week, the Central Bank of Nigeria launched an Anchor Borrowers Programme said to have been pushed by 14 states of Kebbi, Sokoto, Niger, Kaduna, Katsina, Jigawa, Kano, Zamfara, Admawa, Plateau, Lagos, Ogun, Cross-Rivers and Ebonyi for rice and wheat farmers to advance their status from small holder farmers to commercial or large growers.