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10,000 women in Nigeria will be selected as direct beneficiaries of a two-year agricultural intervention, as Value Seeds launches their COVID-19 Recovery and Resilience Intervention Project in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation.
The program is expected to significantly increase the volume of premium maize and rice grains in the market by about 450,000 tons. It will also create indirect jobs in the crop value chain, including input dealers, farm labourers, transporters, logistic officers, marketers’ off-takers, feed millers, and staff in the agro processing industry.
George Kabutha, Project Lead, Value Seeds: The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have aggravated constraints affecting farmers’ productivity by making inputs more expensive and market logistics more tedious for the smallholder farmer. We intend to improve farmers’ yields by providing access to improved seeds, quality crop production inputs, and strengthening their capacity to produce optimally.
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To mitigate the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, about 10,000 Nigerian women are expected to benefit from a two-year agricultural intervention.
With the initiative, over 450 tons of premium maize and rice grains are expected to be added to the Nigerian market to cushion the challenges farmers face due to the pandemic.
Championed by Value Seeds in partnership with MasterCard Foundation, the intervention is also expected to create direct and indirect jobs in the crop value chain, including input dealers, farm labourers, transporters, logistic officers, marketers’ off-takers, feed millers, and staff in the agro processing industry.
The 10,000 women would be selected as direct beneficiaries of the two-year agricultural intervention as part of the COVID-19 Recovery and Resilience Intervention Project, the group said yesterday.