Governors of Anambra, Obiano; CBN, Emefiele & Kebbi, Bagudu with Minister of Agric., Audu Ogbe watching Anambra Rice being harvested in Anaku in Ayamelum local government of Anambra State earlier today...

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WRITTEN BY KENECHUKWU OFOMAH
The Central Bank of Nigeria is to review for approval, the state government's request for #5billion to be made available for farmers for mechanised Agriculture in the state.
The CBN, Mr Godwin Emefiele disclosed this today when he visited the state in the company of a high powered Federal Government delegation including the Minister of Agriculture and rural development, Mr Audu Ogbe, the Governor of Kebbi State, Alhaji Abubakar Bagudu and top CBN and Federal Agriculture Ministry Officials.
The team was on a one day fact finding visit to Coscharis farms, Anaku in Ayamelum Council Area , aimed at assessing the impact of #2billion CBN funds earlier provided to the farms and unraveling the state's Success story on rice production.
During the visit, the team toured the farm's large expanse of rice field where harvesting was ongoing with Mechanized harvester as well as other facilities belonging to farm after which they met with members of the Rice Farmers Association in the state at Omor Rice field.
Conducting the team round the farm, Governor Willie Obiano said a major factor driving the ANAMBRA success story in rice production was the organization and coordination his administration had brought into the subsector, especially as it concerns distribution of funds and farm implements to the farmers.
He said the visit was a great opportunity to show Nigerians and in deed the world that ANAMBRA rice is real, adding that with its present capacity, the State is speedily approaching it's consumption capacity and will soon start generating surplus for export.
The governor commended the CBN for its support that has enabled the state achieve so much in Agriculture and appealed to the apex bank to raise it's intervention funds to the State to #5billion to enable more farmers benefit.
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr Ogbe in his remarks, said President Muhammadu Buhari is investing heavily in Agriculture because of its belief that unless Nigeria is able to feed it's people, it cannot boast of being independent, adding that with what is happening in ANAMBRA, the country will no longer be importing rice soon.
He lauded the working structure which the state government has put in place that has energized the value chain in the rice subsection, and said the jobs it is already creating especially for the youths will give impetus to the Federal government's efforts at job creation.
For his part, the CBN Governor, Mr Emefiele explained that the Bank decided to venture into supporting Agricultural activities to end the heavy importation of food in the country and to create a viable alternative for driving the nation's economy whose oil reserves he noted have been drained.
He said the visit was the beginning of an assessment tour of the nation's Agriculturally endowed states on the mandate of the President, aimed at developing a pragmatic blueprint that will drive it's strides at transforming the nation's Agric sector.
The Kebbi State Governor, Alhaji Bagudu described the State government's decision to provide infrastructure for the farm as highly commendable.
The Chairman of Coschars Farms, Mr Cosmos Maduka noted that although had conceived the idea of venturing into Agriculture 29 years ago, it took the intervention of Governor Obiano in the areas of security and introduction of the enabling framework for partnership to achieve what he has been able to do in collaboration with the state government.

These people shaaa! They spent that much to travel down just to watch rice being harvested? Na wa for them ooo! That money could have bought bags of rice for the IDPs.

There are only 2 States in Nigeria:


Anambra & Others..


We lead while others follow

Lord Be Their Comforter & Helper If They Eventually HBP or Have Cardiac Arrest Because Of This News, Stretch Forth Thy Healing Hands Upon Them....AMEN!!


We Practice Talk & Do Government In Anambra

God Bless Willie Obiano..

God Bless Ndi Anambra..

God Bless Ndi Igbo..


O GA ADIRI ANYI NCHA NMA.........ISEEEEEEEEEEEE!!

Patiently waiting for Diick measurers to land in their fullness in no distant time.



Happy viewing"Doubting Thomas(es)

Multi billion they say??
For a rice farm to be worth a billion it must be atleast 6000 hectares...

What am seeing os not even upto hundred hectare

CBN TO RAISE ANAMBRA'S AGRIC INTERVENTION FUND TO N5Bn- Emefiele

*as FG delegation storms Anambra to understudy Obiano's agric success story

By Kingsley Ezekwelu

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)was going to review for approval, the Anambra state government's request for N5billion to be made available for farmers for mechanised Agriculture in the state.

The CBN governor Mr Godwin Emefiele disclosed this yesterday during a visit to the state in company of a high powered Federal Government delegation including the Minister of Agriculture and rural development, Chief Audu Ogbe, the Governor of Kebbi State, Alhaji Abubakar Bagudu and top CBN and Federal Ministry Agriculture officials.

The team came on a fact finding visit to the Coscharis farms, Anaku in Ayamelum Council Area , aimed at assessing the impact of the N2billion CBN-backed funds earlier provided to the farms and to unravel the state's success story on rice production.

The team toured the farm's large expanse of rice field where harvesting was presently going on with Mechanized harvester as well as other facilities belonging to farm after which they met with members of the Rice Farmers Association in the state at Omor Rice field.

While conducting the team round, Gov Willie Obiano said that a major factor driving the Anambra success story in rice production was the organization and coordination his administration brought into the subsector, especially in the distribution of funds and farm implements to the farmers.

He said the visit was a great opportunity to show Nigerians and in deed the world that "Anambra Rice" is real, adding that with its present capacity, the state was speedily approaching it's consumption capacity and will soon start generating surplus for export.

The governor commended the CBN for its support which has enabled the state achieve so much in Agriculture and appealed to the apex bank to raise it's intervention funds to the State to N5billion to enable more farmers benefit.

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Ogbe in his remarks, said President Muhammadu Buhari was investing heavily in Agriculture because of his belief that unless Nigeria was able to feed her population it cannot boast of being independent, adding that with what is happening in Anambra, the country would stop importing rice soon.

He lauded the working structure which the state government has put in place that has energized the value chain in the rice subsection, and said the jobs already being created especially for the youths would give impetus to the Federal government's efforts at job creation.

For its part, the CBN Governor, Mr Emefiele explained that the Bank decided to venture into supporting Agricultural activities to end the heavy importation of food in the country and to create a viable alternative for driving the nation's economy whose oil reserves he noted have been drained.

He said the visit was the beginning of an assessment tour of the nation's agriculturally endowed states on the mandate of the President, aimed at developing a pragmatic blueprint that will drive it's strides at transforming the nation's Agric sector.

The Kebbi State Governor, Alhaji Bagudu described the State government's decision to provide infrastructure for the farmers as highly commendable.

The Chairman of Coschars Farms, Mr Cosmos Maduka noted that although had conceived the idea of venturing into agriculture about twenty-nine years ago, it took the intervention of Gov Obiano in the areas of security and the introduction of the enabling framework for partnership to achieve what he has been able to do in collaboration with the state government.