President, Groundnut association, Foni warns against impostors
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By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja
The National President, National Groundnut Producers Processors and Marketers Association of Nigeria, Aimu Foni, yesterday, warned members to be wary of impostors who want to conduct elections.
Foni gave the warning in a statement issued on the heels of “An Order of interim injunction restraining the defendants or any other person(s) agents, privies and servants from conducting election into the executive council of NGROPPMAN as scheduled for 11:30 am of the 20th January 2021 or at any other time date pending at the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.”
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), through its anchor borrowers' programme is set to release about 300,000 metric tonnes of maize into the Nigerian market by February.
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Nigeria is producing 10 times more maize yearly now than it did at independence in 1960, data from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) shows.
But despite now being the second largest producer of the commodity in Africa, farmers are worried that cheaper maize imported from other African countries will crash the price in the country’s market and also limit their share of the larger African market.
The USDA data also shows that Nigeria’s yearly national production figure doubled between 1999 when the country returned to democracy and 2019, and that the figures in the last five years are the highest ever.
By Mustapha Yauri
Zaria (Kaduna state) Dec. 31, 2020 The Maize Growers, Processors and Marketers Association of Nigeria (MAGPAMAN) has concluded plans to distribute N2 billion inputs to farmers for dry season farming, under the CBN/MAGPMAN/Anchor Borrowers’ Scheme.
Alhaji Lawal-Maishanu Gazara, Kaduna State Chairman of the Association, told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Zaria, on Thursday, that the items would also include machines and equipment for maize flour production.
Gazara, who said dry season farming of the crop would commence by the end of January 2021, to avoid the adverse effect of the harmattan, added that 5000 farmers were expected to benefit from the project, aimed at strengthening food security, encouraging farming and reducing unemployment in the state.
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