The Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria said the Central Bank of Nigeria has approved compensation for over five hundred and fifty thousand rice farmers affected by the 2018 flood disaster.
RIFAN National President, Aminu Goronyo, unveiled that the CBN governor had directed that the loan be restructured for a period of four years.
Goronyo who said that only the affected farmers under the RIFAN/CBN/ABP model programme would benefit from the compensation, announced that the resolution was an outcome of a meeting with the Director, Developing Finances of CBN and RIFAN executive.
He said that RIFAN only championed the case of affected farmers under its care but expressed the hope that all the registered farmers under the Anchor Borrowers Programme that were affected would benefit from it.
Goroyo said that the bank had also directed that a fresh loan should be given to the affected farmers so that they could go back to the field and recover their losses.
He said that another meeting on adequate compensation to the affected farmers under the RIFAN/ CBN/ ABP model programme, Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Corporation (NAIC) indicated that succor was on the way for farmers negatively impacted by the excessive rains of 2018.
While saying that the compensation programmes were being finalised by NAIC and very soon affected farmers would be paid their claims, Goroyo recalled that all the affected farmers that obtained ABP loans for the rainfall farming had appealed to the government to look into the
matter adding that inspections of the affected states showed that the flood had submerged thousands of hectares of maize and rice farmlands.
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