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Food crisis: 'Why CBN should extend interventions to individual farmers'


The apex bank, had since 2015, through its Anchor Borrower Programme, disbursed several millions of naira to farmers’ groups to boost, among other crops, rice, cocoa and maize production.
But critics of the initiative say in most cases, only political farmers benefitted from the interventions, which development, they opined, partly responsible for the current high prices of food items in the country.
Now, watchers in the system are calling on the apex bank to rework its policy on the beneficiaries in order to accommodate more real farmers in the package to boost more production.
They are also calling on the apex bank to build greater cooperation with the private sector and state governments toward boosting agriculture in the country. ....

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Baba Adedibu told me 'your father was my boss' —Busari Adelakun's son


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Recently, a photograph purported to be that of the bedroom of a political icon in Ibadan, Chief Busari Oloyede Adelakun, popularly known as Eruobodo, went viral on the social media. His son, who is also the Jagunmolu Agbekoya of Yorubaland, Chief Kunle Adelakun, in this interview by SAM NWAOKO, speaks on the photograph and issues around his late father. Excerpts:
 
There was this photograph making the rounds on the internet, said to be the bedroom of your late father, Chief Busari Adelakun. Did you see the photo and, how do you react to it?
I saw the photograph when someone in the United States called my attention to it and sent it to me. When I saw it, I was really shocked, baffled; and I was really distressed and  highly disappointed. I just couldn’t believe that someone would do a thing like that. ....

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'Seedlings, production techs impeding Nigeria's cocoa industry' | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World NewsFeatures — The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News


• Association calls for coordinating body
• Expert advises cocoa states to mobilise youths, forests for production
Apart from neglect of agricultural infrastructure by the government, non-availability of improved high-yielding cocoa seedlings, scarcity of other inputs such as agro-chemicals, old production technologies and climate change have been identified as impediments to increasing cocoa productivity in the country. Production of cocoa beans was around 300,000 metric tonnes in 2013/2014, but reduced to about 245,000 metric tonnes in the 2019/2020 session.
However, in the 2019/2020 cocoa season, the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) aggregated 742,725 tonnes as of June 4, according to International Cocoa Organisation (ICCO). And, Côte d’Ivoire, as of August 3, 2020, aggregated 2.043 million tonnes. ....

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