By 2022, the apex bank had revealed that at least 4.8 million farmers had benefited from the programme.
The apex bank governor said that the CBN had also disbursed huge sums as intervention to various other sectors of the economy.
“Thus, there is the urgent need for a conscientious effort to diversify to other non-oil sectors.”
Similar rice and maize pyramids have already been unveiled in states like Kebbi, Niger, Gombe, Ekiti, among others.
“Indeed, total disbursements [COVID-19 intervention] as at January 2021 amounted to N2 trillion.
