Anambra Agric Commissioner Commends FG IFAD VCDP Interventions

Anambra State Commissioner for Agriculture, Dr. Foster Ihejiofor, has described the Federal Government of Nigeria IFAD VCDP, as the best agric intervention programme with perfect global intention.

Dr. Ihejiofor stated this at Ogbunka, Orumba South Local Government Area when he led an assessment team of stakeholders from Ministries, Departments, Agencies and Civil Society Organizations, on an evaluation tour of the on-going cassava processing center, crench, Sola powered borehole and a tricycle built and donated to Ifeadigo Women Group Ogbunka by the Federal Government of Nigeria IFAD VCDP.

According to Dr. Ihejiofor, the Federal Government of Nigeria IFAD VCDP, which is helping to develop infrastructure along the state staple value chain, is also designed to improve productivity, empower small holder farmers and processors with the knowledge base to make their livelihood resilient.

The acting State Programme Co-ordinator, Federal Government of Nigeria IFAD VCDP, Dr. Deborah Onyefulu, who unveiled the programme’s three cardinal objectives to include poverty eradication, boosting farmers productivity and improving their livelihood assured Anambra State Farmers of more capacity building on sustainability.

The chairperson, Ifeadigo Women Group Ogbunka, Mrs. Munachi Nwankwo, enumerated series of capacity building workshops they have attended within and outside the state and appreciated Governor Chukwuma Soludo for the laudable programme and prayed for its sustainability.

The team as part of its itinerary, also inspected an ongoing gigantic culvert at Uboh, Ndiokpalaeze, Orumba North Local Government Area.

Earlier, the team visited Ayamelum Local Government Area with its climax at a dry season Farrow forty-four Rice farm at Ituru Agbaja Akanato, in Omor Community, owned by a two-time award-winning Federal Government of Nigeria IFAD VCDP farmer, Mr. Peter Okonkwo.

At his Rice farm with uniform height and maturity stage, Mr. Okonkwo, who narrated his frustrations and loss of hope when he was harvesting two to three tons of Rice per hectare before the arrival of the Federal Government of Nigeria IFAD VCDP, announced that he is the first farmer that recorded seven tones per hectare in the programme across participating states in Nigeria, and assured that he will harvest from seven tons and above in that particular farm.

On arrival at Udoka Rice Processing Center, Omor, renovated and fully equipped with a clench section for lactating mothers by the Federal Government of Nigeria IFAD VCDP, the national President, VCDP Youth Network, Mr. Fidelis Ozo, who displayed numerous certificates he obtained from both local, national and international trainings he attended through the Federal Government of Nigeria IFAD VCDP, asked other intervention programme to adopt the VCDP Model for accountability, transparency and easy achievement of set goals.