Benin Republic, RIFAN enters partnership to boost rice production Benin Republic, RIFAN enters partnership to boost rice production
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The Republic of Benin and the Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN) are set to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on how the Association will help the country boost its local Rice Production.
The National body of RIFAN was in Cotonou the Country’s capital recently on the invitation of President Patrice Tallon for discussion on how the MoU would be fine-tuned and signed.
The Delegation was received by the President in his Residential House in Cotonou along with his Minister of Agriculture and that of Foreign Affairs.
Godwin Emefiele, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), says 2.9 million farmers have cultivated 3.6 million hectares across 21 commodities under the bank’s anchor borrowers’ programme (ABP).
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Godwin Emefiele, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), says 2,923,937 farmers have benefited from the bank’s anchor borrowers’ programme (ABP).