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In December last year, Ogun State governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, breezed into the Conference Room of Sheraton Hotels, Abuja. And local and international stakeholders in agriculture stood still as he was decorated with the Best Governor of the Year award in Agriculture, a fitting tribute to months of endless toils and triumphs in a pandemic year. The innovations in farming, farming techniques and technologies and agribusiness deriving from Governor Abiodun’s ISEYA mantra of infrastructure, social welfare and well-being, youth empowerment, culture and religion did not gone unnoticed.
The state is very competitive in arable crops like cassava, yam, maize, sweet potato, and cash crops like cocoa, oil palm, timbre, kolanut, cashew and rubber. In actualising its objective, the government embraced an integrated approach to production, processing and marketing through land provisions/inputs distribution, processing and marketing with individuals and corporate organisations. There
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Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Alhaji Muhammad Sabo Nanono particularly noted that despite the importance of smallholder farmers, their livelihoods were constrained by a host of challenges.
Nigeria is currently the largest producer of cassava in the world, with an estimated figure of about 60million metric tonnes, and with the capacity to double or triple the production figure if the product is fully industrialised.
But market access has remained a huge problem despite various attempts to include cassava in bakery flour and other value chain products like starch and so on.
The CAF is facilitating the knowledge sharing platform of farmers, government, off-takers and financial institutions with credible credit delivery services, input dealers and civil society organisations. It is an inclusive market engagement strategy, which drives the decision of smallholder farmers to produce for identified markets.
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