Maximizing Agricultural Revenue and Key Enterprises in Targeted Sites, MARKETS, an agency funded by the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, said it has facilitated N20 billion as rural agricultural loans in Nigeria.
The agency added that it had mobilized Nigerian farmers to achieve N78 billion value of sales for MARKETS II commodities.
Its Director, External Relations and Capacity Building, Godson Ononiwu who spoke on Wednesday, March 2, in Kpada, Patigi Local Government Area of Kwara State at the presentation of tractor to Anfani Kin Kpada Tifin Cooperative Farming Society Limited, said: “We are providing the tractor not only to support the cooperative society and its members in furthering their own production opportunities but also to allow them develop a commercial tractor business to service the other farmers in their communities.”
The event was attended by local government chairman, Alhaji Uthman Ndako-Kpada, officials of agro-allied institutions and outfits, other dignitaries and members of the cooperative society which is chaired by Alhaji Abdul-Gana Lukpada.
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