FG floats agricultural commodity trade centre

The national has taken some steps towards digitalizing the country’s agricultural goods market, that stakeholders believe had been at infancy stage for many years, by the establishing the agricultural market info centre.

This new initiative was unveiled in Nigerian capital recently by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development throughout a capability building coaching workshop for workers members UN agency can handle the centre nationwide.

Addressing participants at the workshop, the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Dr. Bukar Hassan, aforementioned that the resolve of presidency to pursue smartly exportation of agricultural commodities was the force behind the institution of the centres.

He explained that the country’s agricultural market setting was lacking a reliable and digitalized information base, creating it tough for investors associated exporters of agriculture commodities to create an educated selection.

Hassan explicit that there was got to promote investment, production, processing, selling and exportation of agricultural turn out through a harmonized info sharing system, that he aforementioned would boost the economic recovery programme of this administration.

“It has become imperative to market agricultural market info to help investment production, processing, selling and exportation of agricultural turn out  of the country,” he said.

“It is thus, apparent that investors, marketers and exporters of agricultural export turn out from the country would undoubtedly would like a additional reliable single purpose of contact to facilitate tailored agricultural market info support services and top quality market information for educated investment higher cognitive process across the agricultural worth chains.”

Participants drawn from the thirty six states of the federation, and therefore the FCT were sceptred with laptops and alternative operating tools for the operations of the data centres.

In his remarks, the Director Agric-business and Market Development, Alhaji Musibau Azeez, explained that the target of the capability building workshop was to supply necessary skills for the officers UN agency would be concerned within the operations of the centres.

Azeez, UN agency was painted by Engr. Daniel Udo, conjointly noted that coaching and empowering the officers became necessary as a result of they'd would like a digitalized platform to gather, collate, analyses, transmit and propagate relevant agricultural info associated with agricultural commodities costs.

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