Nigeria’s agricultural imperative: Need for a consolidated policy framework (Part 2)

    Research and Insights | Jul 15, 2024    
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This is the second part of a series of articles reviewing Nigeria’s five major agricultural policies since 1985. The review of the first two was undertaken last week. The last three ought to have been reviewed today, but it turned out that this entire article will be devoted to only the review of the third major agricultural policy framework, “The Green Revolution and Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA) (2011–2015) because of its extensiveness and robustness. The ATA was a strategic and comprehensive agricultural blueprint that set out to truly transform the Nigerian agricultural sector, aiming “to create over 3.5 million jobs from rice, cassava, sorghum, and cotton value chains, with many more jobs to come from other value chains under implementation” and “provide over 300 billion naira (US$ 2 billion) of additional income in the hands of Nigerian farmers.” It also launched a vigorous campaign to substitute 20 percent of bread wheat flour with cassava flour, which was expected to inject 60 billion naira (US$380 million) into the economy.

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