The Presidency on Thursday
released 64 achievements of President Muhammadu Buhari in the agricultural
sector.
Buhari’s aide, Lauretta Onochie
disclosed this in a statement titled ‘Sixty Four Achievements of President
Muhammadu Buhari in Agricultural Sector’, made available on her Facebook page.
The statement read: “1) The
anti-corruption drive of Mr. President put to a halt the exogenous leakages in
the Agricultural sector to encourage, empower, and enhance the locally made
farm produce thereby increasing our internally generated revenue (IGR) index
and foreign exchange capacity and reserve to over $45 Billion in cash and
bonds.
2) President Buhari initiated the
Home Grown Feeding Programme which is designed to put an end to importation and
market monopoly of farm produce that can be grown here in our country which is
a pilot vehicle to sustainable economic, agricultural, academic and job
creation across the length and breadth of our nation.
3) Under President Buhari, the
Standing Inter-Ministerial Technical Committee on Zero-Reject of Agricultural
Commodities and Produce / Non-oil Exports in Nigeria was inaugurated.
4) Under the Buhari-led
administration, Nigeria has benefitted from 13.1billion Euros honeybee project.
5) The Buhari administration has
commenced steps improving the standards of Nigeria’s agricultural exports to
align with global standards due to the rejection of our produce at the EU
Border Controls.
6) Under President Buhari,
Standards and Quality Control measures have been developed in.
7) Under President Buhari
administration at the end of 2016, agricultural goods as share of total trade
got N212.73bn and 4.02 per cent and Agricultural goods exports were 2.7 per
cent higher in Q4 2016 than Q3 2016.
8.) Under the Buhari-led
administration, Sesame seeds contributed N6.46billion to Agricultural product
exports in the fourth quarter of 2016.
9) In the fourth quarter of 2016,
Frozen shrimps and prawns chipped in N4.4billion to Agricultural product
exports under PMB’s administration.
10) Under President Buhari
administration in the fourth quarter of 2016, Flour and meals of soya beans
contributed N2.59billion to agricultural product exports
11) Under President Buhari
administration in the fourth quarter of 2016, cashew nuts in shell contributed
N0.95billion to Agricultural product exports with the Buhari-led
administration.
12) Crude palm kernel accounted
for N0.62 billion of the total Agricultural exports under the President Buhari
administration in the fourth quarter of 2016.
13) Under the President Buhari
administration the agricultural universities coordinating agency is being
revitalised as stipulated in the enabling Act which will work closely with the
Nigerian University Commission and development partners to re-focus the
universities of agriculture in the country.
14) The Livelihood Improvement
Family Enterprises (LIFE) programme was initiated by the Buhari Administration
and it is aimed at bringing life back to rural communities through the empowerment
of youth, women and other vulnerable groups across the country.
15) Livelihood Improvement Family
Enterprises (LIFE) Programme initiated by the President Buhari administration
is geared towards promoting community-based on-farm and off-farm business
activities as a model for job and wealth creation amongst unemployed youth and
women in rural and suburban households.
16) Livelihood Improvement Family
Enterprises (LIFE) Programmes under President Buhari are expected to establish
150,000 cooperatives nationwide under commodity value chain groups.
17) Livelihood Improvement Family
Enterprises (LIFE) programme under President Buhari will establish and operate
up to 1,000 cottage industries in the country, and ultimately engage about
1,995,500 youth and 997,500 women for enhanced productivity.
18) Livelihood Improvement Family
Enterprises (LIFE) programme under President Buhari would add about 5,965,000
metric tons of foods to the national food store.
19) Anchor Borrowers’ Programme
is an intervention of the Buhari administration aimed at fast-tracking access
of rural farmers to finance productivity.
20) The Anchor Borrowers
Programme (ABP) of the Central Bank of Nigeria under the Buhari-led administration
has made available N82billion in funding to 350,000 farmers of rice, wheat,
maize, cotton, cassava, poultry, soy beans and groundnut; who have cultivated
about 400,000 hectares of land.
21) The Buhari-led administration
has made provision of agricultural credit for financing the production of rice,
wheat, ginger, maize and soybeans in Kebbi, Niger, Kaduna, Kano, Enugu, Benue,
Zamfara, Anambra and Kwara States.
22) The Anchor Borrower’s
Programme (ABP) under Buhari’s administration has provided quantum of money for
dry season farming in 2015, wet season rice and wheat farming in 2016 and is
currently supporting the 2016 dry season farming in many states.
23) The President Buhari
administration has commenced the use of National Soil Map Data, with the promotion
of the use of soil-specific fertilizer formulations and application in
prescribed dosages based on soil types following the conduct of soil
mapping/test to enhance agricultural production and productivity.
24) Under President Buhari
administration a resurrected interest in agriculture has awakened among small
holder farmers.
25) Under the Buhari-led
administration, Nigeria’s fertilizer market is growing.
26) The President Buhari
administration has signed an agreement with the Government of Morocco for the
supply of fertilizer raw materials on concessionary terms to boost local
blending to facilitate making soil and crop-specific fertilizer blends
available and accessible to smallholder Nigeria farmers.
27) The Ministry of Agriculture
under President Buhari is facilitating the timely access of farmers to
appropriate quality seeds.
28) The President Buhari
administration has facilitated seed trading locally and internationally through
the application of regionally agreed principles and rules.
29) The enabling environment for
private investment in the seed industry has been created by the Buhari-led
administration.
30) Under President Buhari, the
National Irrigation Policy and Strategy has been developed and focuses on the
need to overcome the irrigation challenges and put available irrigation
facilities in the country into effective use.
31) The PMB Administration has
assessed the status of infrastructure in all the 12 River Basin Development
Authorities (RBDAs) hence, commenced immediate and effective use of the
facilities for commercial farming.
32) Under President Buhari, the
Bank of Agriculture (BOA) has been strengthened for improved delivery of
services through consolidation and recapitalisation in collaboration with the
Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) to ensure loan disbursement at a single
digit interest regime in the agricultural sector as obtainable in developed and
emerging economies.
33) The President Buhari
administration has approved the restructuring, re-capitalising and repositioning
of the Bank of Agriculture (BOA).
34) The Buhari administration has
secured the approval of a grant of $1.1 million from the African Development
Bank (AfDB) for the restructuring of the Bank of Agriculture, aimed at staff
training to strengthen service delivery.
35) The President Buhari administration
has embarked on the re-validation of the claims of agro- dealers and input
suppliers under the 2014 wet and 2014/2015 dry seasons to ensure that genuine
claims are paid by the government.
36) The President Buhari
administration has facilitated the payment of the sum of N20 billion, as part
of the debts owed agro-dealers while efforts are on to fully settle the
outstanding liabilities.
37) The President Buhari
administration has established a N50 billion mechanisation fund to facilitate
the second phase of Agricultural Equipment Hiring Enterprise (AEHE) to roll-out
6,000 tractors and 13,000 harvest and post-harvest equipment units across the
country.
38) With the Buhari-led
administration, Tractors and Implements were rolled out in Ilorin and Abuja on
January 12, 2016, to support targeted commodity value chains.
39) The rising spate of
hostilities and attendant insecurity arising from clashes between crop farmers
and nomadic herdsmen has raised serious concern within the government.
Accordingly, the PMB administration has commenced efforts towards resolution of
pastoralists-farmers conflicts through the provision of 55,000 hectares of land
by 11 states as part of the 5,000 hectares each expected from the 19 northern
states for the development of pasture/paddocks grazing reserves.
40) The Buhari administration has
established 40 large scale rice processing plants and 18 High Quality Cassava
Flour (HQCGF) plants with a stake commitment of China EXIM (85 per cent) and
Nigeria Bank of Industry (BoI) (15 per cent) through concessional credit
facilities of US$383,140,375.60 for the rice mills and US$143,722,202.40 for
the HQCF Plants.
41) The President Buhari
administration through the Ministry of Agriculture is embarking on a programme
of distribution of rice mills, of ten tons per day capacity, 20 tons a day, 40
tons a day, 50 tons and a few 100 tons. Collectively between them, the capacity
for rice milling will be close to 3,000 tons a day nationwide. That is expected
to close the gap between paddy availability and mills to process it.
42) The President Buhari
administration has established 10 large scale rice processing plants and 6 High
Quality Cassava Flour plants to be owned and operated by the private sector and
would be funded by the Special Rice Processing Intervention Fund and the WB
Assisted Agricultural Development Policy Operation [AgDPO] Funds.
43) Through President Buhari
administration, Real GDP in agriculture grew by 4.11 per cent in the year 2016,
and this growth rate was higher than that recorded in 2015 of 3.72 per cent.
44) Under Buhari’s administration
as captured by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), there was a continuing
strong growth in Agriculture (especially Crop Production) in the Q4 of 2016.
45) Agriculture contributed 21.26
per cent to nominal GDP in the Q4 of 2016 and the sector grew by 6.45 per cent
year-on-year under President Buhari administration.
46) In the Buhari-led
administration, the contribution of Agriculture to overall GDP in real terms
was 25.49 per cent in the quarter under review, higher than its share of 24.18
per cent in the corresponding quarter of 2015.
47) The Ministry of Agriculture
under President Buhari administration also provided 2283 bags of industrial
salt to hides and skin dealers in 12 targeted states.
48) The President Buhari
administration placed ban on rice importation and that has saved Nigeria an
average of $5 Million daily.
49) The growing success story on
agriculture in Buhari’s Administration has prompted more youths to commence
full production in agriculture.
50) More than 7 million Nigerians
are actively employed in agriculture under the Buhari Government’s
diversification agenda and the Ministry of Agriculture is working to ensure
that Agriculture will offer 20 million jobs in the nearest future.
51) Nigeria’s milled rice
production has increased by about 60 percent, from 2.5 million MT in 2015, to 4
million MT in 2017 under the President Buhari administration.
52) The Buhari-led administration
set up the Presidential Fertilizer Initiative (PFI) to deliver commercially
significant quantities of affordable and high quality fertilizer to the
Nigerian farmer at the right time
53) The Presidential Fertilizer
Initiative (PFI) under the President Buhari administration has resulted in the
revitalization of 14 blending plants across the country, with a total installed
capacity in excess of 2 million MT.
54) The Presidential Fertilizer
Initiative (PFI) under the President Buhari administration has resulted in
benefits which will include annual savings of US$200 million in foreign
exchange, and N60 billion annually in budgetary provisions for Fertilizer
subsidies.
55) Under President Buhari
administration, the current cumulative in terms of IGR generated through
Agriculture since the fall in price of crude globally has placed agriculture as
the best alternative for creating wealth and increasing our National Foreign
Reserve to an all-time high.
56) Nigeria’s economy has since
bounced back after the recession of 2015/2016 and has continued to grow back as
the strongest stabilizing economy in Africa under Buhari-led administration.
57) Through the Buhari-led
administration, agriculture is already ripe to be the next green oil and global
gold the world has ever seen and the green-rush will lead all roads to Nigeria.
58) Buhari-led Administration has
revived 11 moribund plants with a combined capacity of over two million metric
tonnes.
59) In 2017 under the President
Buhari administration, Presidential Fertilizer Initiative (PFI) delivered 10
million 50kg bags(500,000MT) of NPK 20:10:10 fertilizer at a price of N5,500 in
time for the wet season which is down from the price of N9,000 per 50kg bag in
2016, a 40% reduction in price.
60) Under President Buhari
administration there is a higher patronage for the country’s rail network due
to movement of raw materials and finished goods.
61) Under President Buhari
administration, the bag-making sector of the economy was boosted, with over
10million packaging bags produced exclusively for Presidential Fertilizer
Initiative (PFI).
62) The Presidential Fertilizer
Initiative (PFI) has been able to create 60,000 direct jobs and even a higher number
of indirect jobs under the Buhari-led administration.
63) The Buhari-led administration
has cut down on imports of agricultural products in order to enable
self-sufficiency in food production and consumption.
64) Under President Buhari
administration, The Green Alternative (TGA) was initiated, a major policy
thrust to build an agri-business economy capable of delivering sustained
prosperity by meeting domestic food security goals, generate exports, support
sustainable income and job.”
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ReplyDeleteSo with all these initiatives and money being made by the government why are Nigerians still hungry? so long as the Buhari government has not improved the quality of life of Nigerians he has failed.
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