Gilbert Ekugbe
The Women Leader, All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) and Director-General/ National Coordinator, LUGAVO, Hajia Halima Njobdi has urged farmers to take advantage of the federal government’s Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending and the Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Corporation (NAIC) to safeguard risks exposures of their farming businesses post COVID-19.
She added that with the adverse impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and worsening security challenges in Nigeria’s agric sector, Nigerian farmers have been advised to key into the insurance guarantee and subsidy regimes in agro-industrial value chains introduced by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)