217 farmers across 16 local governments of Kwara State are to benefit from a N215million commercial agricultural loan scheme to boost agricultural activities by the State Government. While presenting cheques to some of the beneficiaries, the State Governor, Abdulfattah Ahmed encouraged the farmers to make judicious use of the funds to expand their business.
He also noted that the initiative would take the state a step closer to achieving its goal of an agro-driven growth as well as the launch of the off-taker demand driven scheme which would extend agribusiness to other parts of the state. He stressed that 172 lead farmers are at the core of his administration’s model of ten out grower farmers per local government who will receive funds to expand their business because they have proven their capacity to drive agribusinesses.
The governor charged the beneficiaries to be change agents that will train the next generation of commercial farmers in the state at their various communities, emphasizing that they should judiciously use the funds given to them for the establishment of agriculture as the pivot of Kwara State’s economic prosperity.
