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The Livelihoods Improvement Family Enterprises Programme in the Niger Delta, (LIFE-ND) has said it will collaborate with the state Agricultural Development Programme (ADP) to strengthen extension service delivery to farmers in Edo State.
The National Component Coordinator, Rural Institution Youth and Gender, LIFE-ND, Dr Clement Uwem, made this known during a one-day policy engagement with extension agents on agricultural extension service delivery in Benin last week. x
Uwem said the meeting became necessary because extension services are critical to LIFE-ND projects and agricultural development in Nigeria.
“Agriculture is being carried out in an environment where climate change is affecting food production, what that means is that we now have to use climate-smart agricultural technologies.
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The National Project Coordinator of the Livelihood Improvement Family Enterprise in the Niger Delta region (LIFE-ND), Sani Abiodun, has said that agricultural production will hardly succeed in Nigeria without the collaboration and support of Agricultural Development Programmes (ADP).
He spoke at Umuahia, Abia State capital, during the flag off of the state LIFE-ND policy engagement with Abia Agricultural Development Programmes (ADP) and other stakeholders on extension service delivery to its beneficiaries in the ongoing LIFE-ND project in Abia State. x
Abiodun, who was represented by the LIFE-ND National Rural Coordinator, Dr. Clement Uwem, described the roles of ADP in agriculture and agribusiness as indispensable, stressing that this necessitated the LIFE-ND partnership with ADP.