For economic progress, Nigeria must refocus on agriculture – FG

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The Federal Government and worldwide improvement associations must refocus their strategies on agriculture to reshape their intercessions to moderate the negative effect of the current devaluation of the Naira on the sector development.

The Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta, PIND, and the UK Department for International Development, DFID Market Development, MADE Program, said on Thursday an examination they supported found the Naira devaluation arrangement affected agric chains in the Niger Delta locale.

The Executive Secretary of PIND, Dara Akala, said at the introduction of the discoveries in Abuja that the investigation was to analyze impacts of devaluation and related government exchange confinement strategies on four key agriculture esteem chains in the Niger Delta area, to be specific cassava, palm oil, aquaculture, and poultry.

Mr. Akala said the investigation likewise took a look at the effect on rural sources of info and animal products and additionally advertise reactions over the esteem chains to the salary and substitution impacts that emerged because of agriculture value chain.

Presenting his findings, the consultant, who conducted the study, Ogho Okiti, said there was need for the government and its partners to restructure its interventions to reflect the economic realities of a dynamic situation, especially relating to the four key commodities in the agricultural value chain.

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