Mr Rimi said the workshop marked a pivotal step in fostering understanding and collaboration to harness the immense potential of a national traceability system.
He said insecurity prevented farmers from going to the farm, adding that farmers needed a sense of security alongside other requirements to boost farming.
“This is a big concern, and we need to think critically about how we can meet our present needs without compromising the needs of the future,” he said.
Mohammed Abubakar, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, says cashew nuts export from Nigeria generated over $250 million in 2022.
Mr Mudi told the minister that AFAN and its Nigerian company partner would provide 500,000 tricycles.
President Muhammadu Buhari regime’s heavy taxes are causing food prices to rise, says All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN).
The coordinator said 350 vulnerable women and youths in each of the participating states would benefit from the grant, known as Rural Poor Stimulus Facility.
Amid attacks on farmlands, kidnapping, and killing, Nigerian farmers have begged security forces for protection against killer herdsmen.
“We need the government to protect the lives of the citizens because it is only when there is life that we talk of food.”
The case was initiated in 2008, facing delays as Shell argued that courts in the Netherlands did not have the jurisdiction to hear the matter. In this time, two of the farmers had died.
