Two hundred farmers in the Odukpani Local Government Area of Cross River State will receive a loan of N1 million each, to cultivate high yielding and disease resistant maize varieties.
we will move to our first 2,000 hectares in Odukpani,” he said.
A representative of the Eki Ancestral Clan in the Obong’s Palace, Justin Asuquo, said that farmers in the state had practised subsistence farming for too long.
“The government has come to encourage us to venture into commercial agriculture. We must embrace and take advantage of this opportunity. I encourage our people to take the project seriously, it has the capacity to build great farmers and produce millionaires,” he said.
The USAID Coordinator in Cross River, Faith Omori, urged managers of the project to carry women farmers along in the interest of fairness.
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