A six-man FG/IFAD VCDP Project Completion Review Team is in Anambra
State for a-five-day working visit aimed at ascertaining what the
project was able to achieve in five years.
Members of the team were drown from the Federal Ministry of
Agriculture and Rural development, its Finance counterpart, VCDP Head
Office Abuja and a consultant from Abuja.
Agric correspondent Ebele Ezeh reports that
the team, which arrived on Friday 21st August began aggressive field
work on Saturday the 22nd August 2020 visiting project sites and farms
at Ayamelum and Anambra East Council Areas.
They started with Udoka and Nnedimma rice mills Omor, two point five
kilometres farm access road at Opetepe, Ifite-Ogwari with fifty
hectares developed farm land and the W-13 farm land at Amikwe village
Omor.
Other places visited were the three point seven kilometers farm access
road at Umueri, the twenty-five hectares developed land for cassava
and cassava bulky centre Umueri cluster among others.
Speaking after interacting with farmers at the various locations
visited, the team leader, Mr. Bassey Unaowo affirmed that the project
has greatly achieved its aims and objectives of impacting on
the lives of the rural farmers by improving and increasing their
productivity along rice and cassava value chains.
Mr. Unaowo expressed satisfaction that through various capacity buildings and use of improved seedlings and strict adherence to best agronomic
practices, the rural farmers have comfortably recorded eight to ten
tons per hectare as against their initial two point five to three tons
per hectare.
The State Programme Coordinator, FG/IFAD VCDP, Mr. Nnamdi Agwuncha,
described the visit as capacity building, and assured to discuss
with the Commissioner for Agriculture, Mechanization, Processing and
Export on modalities to be put in place to stop the act of bagging of
Anambra Rice in foreign bags by rice millers.
For some of the farmers, including Mrs. Philomina Ekemezie FG/IFAD
VCDP has through its various capacity building workshops positively
change their financial status as they easily off set their bills,
build houses, acquire cars and landed property.
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