Niger Delta
658 Communities To Benefit From Fadama III In S’South
More than 658 communities in the South-South zone of the country are to benefit from the implementation of the Fadama III projects.
The Fadama III Zonal Project Coordinator, Dr Isaiah Foby, disclosed this in Yenagoa on Tuesday during the second World Bank/Federal Government supervision mission to the zone.
The Tide’s source reports that state coordinators of Fadama III projects and supervisors from the World Bank and the Federal Ministry of Agriculture were in Yenagoa for a review of the projects.
Speaking at the occasion, Foby said that the introduction of the Fadama project was an important intervention programme of the World Bank and the Federal Government.
He explained that agriculture was capable of reducing poverty, provide employment, create wealth and assist in the attainment of national food security.
Foby said that the project offices were spread across 104 local governments in the zone, adding that the zone also had more than 6,000 Fadama user groups, to boost food production.
The leader of the World Bank team, Prof. Tohomdet Obadiah, in his assessment of the project, called on all states to ensure prompt payment of their counterpart funding for the project.
He stressed the need for them to mobilise more people to benefit from the scheme to ensure improved food production.
In his address of welcome, the Bayelsa Commissioner for Agriculture, Chief Dikievie Ikiogha, called on the implementation units of the projects to intensify efforts in monitoring sub-projects in various communities.
He said that this would ensure that the objectives of the projects were met.
Ikiogha said that Fadama III project was in line with the state government’s economic empowerment and development strategy to boost production.
The Bayelsa Fadama Project Coordinator, Mr Kenneth Opukeme, later told the source that more than 100 communities in the state would benefit from the project with budget estimate of more than 7.8 million dollars.
Opukeme said the scheme required a counterpart funding of N50 million, annually, from the state government, for the successful implementation of the five-year project.
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