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Farmers have raised the alarm over the deplorable state of extension services in the country, manifesting in the ratio of one Extension Agent (EA) to 10,000 farmers (1:10,000).  They are angered that the EAs that are supposed to serve as platform for linking new innovations from research institutes to the farmers are no longer considered important unit in the agriculture value chain designed to diversify the national economy.  The United Nation Food and Agricultural Organisations (FAO) had recommended one EA to 800 (1:800) farmers and had even increased it to 1:1,000, but over the years Nigeria has been unable to meet up.  At a stakeholders sensitisation workshop on the revitalisation of agricultural extension in Nigeria, held in Abuja, the Executive Director of National Agricultural Extension and Research Liaison Services (NAERLS), Prof. Ikane Emmanuel, lamented that extension service in the country is in a sad state, saying because the structure is at the state level, there i

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