The Enugu State government is to disburse N1 billion to farmer cooperative groups as part of efforts to ensure the success of the Enugu-Songhai Initiative.
The chairman of the State Assembly committee on agriculture, Okey Nwoke, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu on Wednesday that the fund would be accessed from the CBN.
He said that the fund would be used to procure agro-allied inputs for the smooth take off of the Songhai Initiative.
Mr. Nwoke said the exercise was delayed to enable government tidy up the “grey” areas for smooth disbursement of the fund to genuine farmers who were trained for six months at Songhai farms in Benin Republic.
