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CBN: Anambra Has The Potentials To Be Food-basket Of Nigeria & African Continent by AmericanQuarter: 1:21pm On Sep 22, 2016 |
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said that Anambra State has the potentials of becoming not only Nigeria’s food basket, but also providing food for the African Continental and beyond. Consequently, the apex bank charged the state to bring to bear its excellent performance in commerce to agriculture to make the dream become a reality. Stating this in a speech he delivered on behalf of the Director, Development Finance Department of the CBN, during the flag-off of Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP) in Anambra State, the bank’s Branch Controller, Awka Branch, Mr. C.M. Sokari, assured the state that the ABP would contribute in no small measure to realizing the goal of the state becoming a food basket. He noted that several intervention programmes have been floated by the CBN in collaboration with the Federal Government to diversify the nation’s economic base away from crude oil, adding that ABP was launched by the apex bank to reposition agriculture in the scheme of things in the country. “To fund the programme, the CBN had set aside N40 billion from the N220 billion Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Fund for farmers at a single-digit rate of nine per cent. “…Nigeria, as we may all know, is a mjor rice producer with over 20 key rice producing states in the country most of which cultivate during both wet and dry seasons. Rice is one crop in which the country has comparative advantage to easily become self-sufficient, given the huge potentials that exist. “The Central Bank of Nigeria has set the ball rolling and shown commitment to this programme and, therefore, expects that farmers and all relevant stakeholders in Anambra State would reciprocate by contributing their very best towards ensuring the successful implementation of this laudable programme,” he said. Sokari commended Governor Willie Obiano and his team for the laudable achievements the state has made and his support for agriculture and agricultural developmental programmes, including taking a bold lead in the export of vegetable to Europe and other Western countries. “I, therefore, enjoin us all to embrace this programme and collaborate with both the CBN and the state government in ensuring that in the next few years our great country Nigeria will no longer be one of the world’s highest importers of rice, but a net exporter of the commodity,” he said. Micro Finance Expert with Rural Finance Institution Building Programme (RUFIN), Mr Adamu Ibrahim, in his remarks said the main focus of RUFIN was on the people at the bottom of the pyramid, noting that 70 per cent of the Nigerian population live in the rural areas and are mostly famers. “The ABP for rice in Anambra is peculiar in the sense that all the partners have interest in RUFIN. First of all Anambra State is a RUFIN participating state, not only participating, also financially. In fact, in all our states only Anambra State is current in payment of its counterpart funding,” he said. The State Commissioner for Agriculture, Mechanization, Processing and Export, Mr Afam Mbanefo, in his speech described the Anambra governor as an agro friendly executive, stressing that Governor Obiano had supported all the innovations being put in place by his ministry. He disclosed that the position of the government was to make sure there was a safe playing ground for the farmers in the state to participate in the programme, to retain the state brand and heritage, which is the Anambra State rice, to engage the youths and empower the farmers. Mbanefo assured the CBN of the cooperation of the farmers and urged the apex bank to extend the ABP to other agriculture sectors http://sunnewsonline.com/food-basket-you-can-feed-africa-cbn-tells-anambra-govt/ 21 Likes 3 Shares
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Re: CBN: Anambra Has The Potentials To Be Food-basket Of Nigeria & African Continent by DIFY20(f): 1:32pm On Sep 22, 2016 |
even a blind man can testify to dat.... anyway just watch how the eweduterian and amalarians ofonjas will gather with their plate of amala and ewedu to tell us how anambra state is eroded and landlock 109 Likes 9 Shares |
Re: CBN: Anambra Has The Potentials To Be Food-basket Of Nigeria & African Continent by kenny987(f): 1:36pm On Sep 22, 2016 |
God bless my homeland! Let me wait for those rabid dogs that will soil this thread with their mad rants on their foolish beliefs about ugu, rice and their lies of impossibility. Ndi ara! 78 Likes 4 Shares |
Re: CBN: Anambra Has The Potentials To Be Food-basket Of Nigeria & African Continent by Nobody: 2:01pm On Sep 22, 2016 |
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Re: CBN: Anambra Has The Potentials To Be Food-basket Of Nigeria & African Continent by Bujumbura(m): 2:07pm On Sep 22, 2016 |
ackmann:they ve arrived 133 Likes 10 Shares
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Re: CBN: Anambra Has The Potentials To Be Food-basket Of Nigeria & African Continent by Boleyndynasty2(f): 2:11pm On Sep 22, 2016 |
ackmann:What's your point exactly? 100 Likes 4 Shares |
Re: CBN: Anambra Has The Potentials To Be Food-basket Of Nigeria & African Continent by AmericanQuarter: 2:11pm On Sep 22, 2016 |
ackmann: Modern farming like the one in the video does not require the entire sahara desert but a parcel of land that can be farmed several times in a year. Like the Cosharis farm below is one of the numerous farms in Anambra North and it is farmed for 2 seasons in a year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPSVgYiPO6Q 93 Likes 4 Shares |
Re: CBN: Anambra Has The Potentials To Be Food-basket Of Nigeria & African Continent by EternalTruths: 2:16pm On Sep 22, 2016 |
ackmann: Guess his tribe and win a lottery to the US. 131 Likes 10 Shares |
Re: CBN: Anambra Has The Potentials To Be Food-basket Of Nigeria & African Continent by Pavore9: 2:18pm On Sep 22, 2016 |
ackmann: Though the State is small in terms of landmass as it is not even up to the size of Akamkpa Local Government Area of Cross River State but with an enhanced human capital and technology, they can optimize output though not to the level of being the food basket of Nigeria as na Benue State get that chieftaincy title! Newmanluckyman: Anambra State is 4,844 square km while Lagos State is 3,345 square km. Akamkpa LGA is 5,003 square km!...........Showing off ignorance when one can easily verify information through google is sickening! Your boldness really need to be laughed at! 25 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: CBN: Anambra Has The Potentials To Be Food-basket Of Nigeria & African Continent by Yyeske(m): 2:24pm On Sep 22, 2016 |
ackmann:Why can't you for once appreciate something good, experts are seeing the good work in Anambra while you are in your father's house hating. Cleanse yourself of hate and see your life quality improve. Proudly Anambrarian. 88 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: CBN: Anambra Has The Potentials To Be Food-basket Of Nigeria & African Continent by InyinyaAgbaOku(m): 2:24pm On Sep 22, 2016 |
ackmann:What is the size and population of Israel? Have you checked their productivity? With all Nigeria's big size, it's not even a top producer of any of the most valuable agricultural products. You probably are stuck in the olden days era of shifting cultivation. Dude, the world has moved 100 Likes 6 Shares |
Re: CBN: Anambra Has The Potentials To Be Food-basket Of Nigeria & African Continent by Pwayne2016(m): 2:48pm On Sep 22, 2016 |
Igboland is Fertile From Anam To Illah To Agbor Down to Kwale Cross to Egbema To Oguta To Ngor Okpala To Etche To Obingwa to Izzi to Ivo To Nsukka to Nkanu To Orumba can feed The whole West Africa if we focus on Agriculture I rep Anambra I rep Igboland 72 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: CBN: Anambra Has The Potentials To Be Food-basket Of Nigeria & African Continent by Nobody: 3:04pm On Sep 22, 2016 |
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Re: CBN: Anambra Has The Potentials To Be Food-basket Of Nigeria & African Continent by Nobody: 3:11pm On Sep 22, 2016 |
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Re: CBN: Anambra Has The Potentials To Be Food-basket Of Nigeria & African Continent by NoreenUG(f): 3:22pm On Sep 22, 2016 |
ackmann: Seattle City Land Area: 217 km2 (Two Hundred and Seventeen Square Kilometres). Anambra State Land Area: 4,844 km2 (Four Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-Four Square Kilometres). I blame cheap internet for giving dunces like you a platform to showcase your ignorance. 118 Likes 13 Shares |
Re: CBN: Anambra Has The Potentials To Be Food-basket Of Nigeria & African Continent by Nobody: 3:24pm On Sep 22, 2016 |
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Re: CBN: Anambra Has The Potentials To Be Food-basket Of Nigeria & African Continent by NoreenUG(f): 3:29pm On Sep 22, 2016 |
ackmann: Just shut it already and admit you goofed instead of acting like an ape. The official administrative Land Area of Seattle is 217km2. If you wanted to be more specific (by including other local government area like Tacoma and Bellevue), you would have said Metropolitan Seattle; and you'd still be wrong because the land area of the South-East is at 25,000km2 which still makes your dumb claim FALSE. Grab a freaking Geography textbook and stop making a buffoon of yourself, you illiterate. 121 Likes 8 Shares |
Re: CBN: Anambra Has The Potentials To Be Food-basket Of Nigeria & African Continent by NoreenUG(f): 3:35pm On Sep 22, 2016 |
ackmann: So glad to see you've been left with no other option than namecalling since you've been bested intellectually. Silly ineffectual troll has met his waterloo. 82 Likes 4 Shares |
Re: CBN: Anambra Has The Potentials To Be Food-basket Of Nigeria & African Continent by InyinyaAgbaOku(m): 3:35pm On Sep 22, 2016 |
ackmann: Nigeria and Mali are bigger than Israel, that's how small Israel is but it's more productive than the two entities combined in terms of productivity 41 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: CBN: Anambra Has The Potentials To Be Food-basket Of Nigeria & African Continent by A7(m): 3:38pm On Sep 22, 2016 |
Anambra state's take off was very bad, other states enrolled in this FG's initiative do not start with a meagre 4,000 farmers. Kebbi for example started with more than 70,000 farmers, Adamawa is about to register 120,000 farmers, plateau has registered 100,000 and Jigawa 50,000. There are other states currently registering, none with less than 4,000 farmers. I believe Anambra is bluffing. I will agree if the claim is about feeding Anambra only. Nigeria and Africa cannot be fed by one state with 4,000 rice farmers in just 8 local govts. it is impossible, the claim is absurd, believe at your own peril. 7 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: CBN: Anambra Has The Potentials To Be Food-basket Of Nigeria & African Continent by Nobody: 3:39pm On Sep 22, 2016 |
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Re: CBN: Anambra Has The Potentials To Be Food-basket Of Nigeria & African Continent by NoreenUG(f): 3:43pm On Sep 22, 2016 |
InyinyaAgbaOku: You're even going too far with Israel. Fckking SINGAPORE with a land area that isn't even up to 800 km2 (EIGHT HUNDRED KILOMETRES, I kid you not!) is STILL more advanced, wealthy, progressive and successful than Nigeria, Mali, Sudan, Somalia and Niger Republic all combined and multiplied by 50. The dunces in the North and their Afonja houseboys are clearly too dull to realize that REAL development comes from education and empowerment of the populace, not silly geographical drawings or OIL. 65 Likes 5 Shares |
Re: CBN: Anambra Has The Potentials To Be Food-basket Of Nigeria & African Continent by Doug07034780891(m): 3:45pm On Sep 22, 2016 |
Guy you are a bad a.sss nigger.. easy bro! LOL NoreenUG: 47 Likes
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Re: CBN: Anambra Has The Potentials To Be Food-basket Of Nigeria & African Continent by Nobody: 3:46pm On Sep 22, 2016 |
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Re: CBN: Anambra Has The Potentials To Be Food-basket Of Nigeria & African Continent by Blue3k(m): 3:52pm On Sep 22, 2016 |
ackmann: Actually your still wrong the whole city of Seattle is what she said it is. Even if your talking about metro which includes multiple cities 21,202 km^2. Have some humility and stop embarrassing yourself. https://www.britannica.com/place/Seattle-Washington https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle 34 Likes |
Re: CBN: Anambra Has The Potentials To Be Food-basket Of Nigeria & African Continent by InyinyaAgbaOku(m): 3:54pm On Sep 22, 2016 |
NoreenUG: They are too backward. After watching greenhouse farming and several indoor farming techniques employed by top agricultural producers of things like salad stuffs, tomatoes, apples, I knew landmass is not a factor to successful agriculture. Israel is one of the top3 in dairy and beef production but it's smaller than almost all african countries. And the ignorant dude doesn't wanna keep quiet 42 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: CBN: Anambra Has The Potentials To Be Food-basket Of Nigeria & African Continent by NoreenUG(f): 3:55pm On Sep 22, 2016 |
ackmann: First admit you made a factual blunder with your Seattle analogy instead of throwing tantrums like a mentally challenged teenage boy. When you're done with that, reread this very post of yours I'm quoting and also admit that you have exhibited the same type of intellectual laziness shown by people in the 15th Century who probably thought the concept of an aeroplane was stupid. "If humans with their lightweight can't fly, then how is that hulking mess of metallic monstrosity (weighing over 5,000 times the size of a human) supposed to?" "Why aren't the wings flapping? How do you expect that thing to fly?" Food for thought. As a parting shot, I'd advise you to Google "vertical farming" and "hydroponic agriculture" if all else fails. 65 Likes 6 Shares |
Re: CBN: Anambra Has The Potentials To Be Food-basket Of Nigeria & African Continent by Chiefobdk1: 3:59pm On Sep 22, 2016 |
stop ackmann: stop hating. dude u re not making sense 33 Likes |
Re: CBN: Anambra Has The Potentials To Be Food-basket Of Nigeria & African Continent by Chiefobdk1: 4:00pm On Sep 22, 2016 |
EternalTruths:afonja yor from sawt waste 21 Likes |
Re: CBN: Anambra Has The Potentials To Be Food-basket Of Nigeria & African Continent by Blue3k(m): 4:01pm On Sep 22, 2016 |
NoreenUG: This guy is clearly retarded. He has the gull to call us idiots then loses to an arguements to us in seconds. Then starts name calling like child because his brain can't mount simple counter arguements. Economicly speaking Nigeria is not operating at full capacity in any sector so it's all possible. Most farming is subsistence and not mechanized, cattle ranching not norm, electricity to store and Preserve food not there. If those structural and technological addressed why not? 23 Likes |
Re: CBN: Anambra Has The Potentials To Be Food-basket Of Nigeria & African Continent by InyinyaAgbaOku(m): 4:02pm On Sep 22, 2016 |
ackmann: Let's even assume you are right, we will buy off Afonja and northern lands from biafra, how is that? Common, go and take several seats. See you trying to downplay Israel! What has Nigeria, Mali, Sudan, Niger achieved with their sizes? Are they better than Israel? Israel is like the size of south East. The HDI released by MDGs in 2015 showed regions that will be 3rd world and not. SE led in 6 of 9 indices, covering education, health, empowerment.. The other 3 goals weren't scored. The rest of Nigeria should go and find their square roots in the likes of Gambia 17 Likes |
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