{"id":25235,"date":"2020-09-23T14:35:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T13:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/?p=25235"},"modified":"2020-09-23T14:35:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T13:35:41","slug":"cbn-rallies-stakeholders-for-dry-season-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/cbn-rallies-stakeholders-for-dry-season-farming\/","title":{"rendered":"CBN rallies stakeholders for dry season farming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Moses Uwagbale&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p>The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), on Tuesday, urged agriculture stakeholders to make adequate plans for the dry season farming to boost food security and avoid shortage.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Mr Yusuf Yila, Director, Development Finance Department of the bank made the call at a dry season stakeholders\u2019 forum organised under the aegis of Anchor Borrowers\u2019 Programme (ABP) of the bank in Abuja.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Yila said that food security was an important priority of the government, which the CBN would work to ensure its success.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>He urged all stakeholders to play their roles effectively to ensure that the dry season farming succeeded.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is a meeting that is very important, especially coming after the floods in Kebbi, and given challenges posed by COVID-19.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\u201cFood security is a very important priority of government and CBN will ensure its success.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor the dry season, it is important that everybody plays his role to avoid delay,\u2019\u2019 he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Yila said that since inception in 2015, the ABP has contributed to agriculture revolution of government.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>He said that programme would, henceforth, only accommodate stakeholders with a track record of credibility.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>He added that four commodities would be in focus for the dry season programme and he called on commercial banks to ensure timely disbursement of the loans to farmers to enable them to plan on time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>He said that the apex bank had also reduced the risk-sharing ratio to further encourage the commercial banks.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis year, we are focusing on four key commodities; rice, maize, tomatoes and wheat.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor the banks, timely disbursement is very important; the CBN disburses early enough.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor the dry season, there will be sanctions to banks that cause unnecessary delay.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\u201cAgriculture is the next big thing, as the days of oil are over and if we do not get the dry season right, the country will have food issues,\u2019\u2019 he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Mr Chika Nwaja, Head, Anchor Borrowers\u2019 Programme, said that the programme, since 2015 when it was launched, had spearheaded food revolution in Nigeria.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>He said that the programme had accommodated about three million farmers cultivating 1.7 million hectares of farmland.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Nwaja urged stakeholders to improve agricultural techniques for improved yields.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>He said that while other parts of the world were already in the fourth revolution that is digital, Nigeria was still grappling with the second revolution that is mechanised farming.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Moses Uwagbale&nbsp; The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), on Tuesday, urged agriculture stakeholders to make adequate plans for the dry season farming to boost food security and avoid shortage.&nbsp; Mr Yusuf Yila, Director, Development Finance Department of the bank made the call at a dry season stakeholders\u2019 forum organised under the aegis of Anchor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241,235,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreign","category-resources","category-trade-and-industry","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - 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