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Farmers Urge Early Release Of Farm Inputs
Farmers in Benue State
have urged the incoming administration to ensure early procurement and distribution of farm inputs to farmers to enhance food sufficiency in the country.
The farmers made this call in separate interviews with The Tide source in Makurdi, on Monday.
According to them, the late procurement and distribution of such farm inputs like fertilisers and seedlings should be discouraged.
Mr Vitalis Ayongo, a rice farmer, told reporters that in the previous years, they were supplied farm inputs late.
He explained that it was always having negative impact on their yields.
Ayongo said that the best time to make farm inputs available to farmers was before the commencement of the rainy season.
Mr Tyohuna Asue, a soybean farmer, said a situation whereby farm inputs were made available to farmers close to the end of rainy season was not good enough.
“This does not speak well of the government at all levels because it looks as if they were not giving agriculture the desired attention.
“This in turn negatively affects the outcome of farmers’ efforts during harvesting period,” he said.
Mrs Eunice Akase, a groundnut farmer, told resporters that the incoming government should reverse the trend to encourage farmers to increase food production, and to meet local and factory consumption.
Akase said that the incoming administration should make agriculture more attractive to encourage youths to venture into it, and thereby reducing unemployment.
Mr Titus Terwase, a yam farmer, appealed to the incoming government in the state and at the federal level to make agriculture their topmost priority.
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Ministry of Marine and Blue Economy is seeking new funding to implement its ambitious 10-year policy, with officials acknowledging that public funding is insufficient for the scale of transformation envisioned.
Adegboyega Oyetola, said finance is the “lever that will attract long-term and progressive capital critical” and determine whether the ministry’s goals take off.
“Resources we currently receive from the national budget are grossly inadequate compared to the enormous responsibility before the ministry and sector,” he warned.
He described public funding not as charity but as “seed capital” that would unlock private investment adding that without it, Nigeria risks falling behind its neighbours while billions of naira continue to leak abroad through freight payments on foreign vessels.
He said “We have N24.6 trillion in pension assets, with 5 percent set aside for sustainability, including blue and green bonds,” he told stakeholders. “Each time green bonds have been issued, they have been oversubscribed. The money is there. The question is, how do you then get this money?”
The NGX reckons that once incorporated into the national budget, the Debt Management Office could issue the bonds, attracting both domestic pension funds and international investors.
Yet even as officials push for creative financing, Oloruntola stressed that the first step remains legislative.
“Even the most innovative financial tools and private investments require a solid public funding base to thrive.
It would be noted that with government funding inadequate, the ministry and capital market operators see bonds as alternative financing.
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