Tricycles facilitated by Kogi APPEALS for cashew farmers in Ochaja community
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Sun Jul 18 2021
The Agro-Processing, Productivity Enhancement and Livelihood Support (APPEALS) Project is jointly supported by the World Bank, the Federal Government of Nigeria and the Kogi State Government.
The objective of the project is to enhance the agricultural productivity of small and medium scale farmers and improve the value addition along priority value chains of rice, cashew and cassava.
The project, which is headed by the coordinator in Kogi State, Dr Sanni Abdullahi Ozomata, took off in October 2018 while full implementation began in January 2019
According to Ozomata, the total hectares the project facilitated support for include rice, 993ha; cashew, 2,501ha and cassava, 1,044ha.
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