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Friday, October 21, 20 11
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ADB disburses N24m for community projects in Bauchi THEAfrkan D-:l'tiopment Bank(AmB) hu disbu~ N14 mUli'Jn (or some runl community projects In Bauchi State IIl1dcr its Com nl unity llase Agrie ul tu~
and Rural Devc'lop-
mcnl Proj«t (CB ARDP). nll~ N;o.tional Desk a rnetr of the project, Dr ~Iuhammcd
Arabi. made
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project enti tled, - lncOIll!: Alle\.ialioll P1ackagc': Arabi c:J:pn:$scd th e
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hope that the projects, indudlng capacity build· ing. improvement of crop production and community devciop nlcnl, would cuntribute to (()()d ~u rity and enha nce peoplcs' 2-C(:C5S 10 rural infrastruc-
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He said that lilt: bank had trained mort than 1.700 persons ill various institutions within and oulside the country. He said that those mined were drawn (rom the participatin g commu niUes, local governmelilS an d the Ministry (or Local Govcrnme llt. Arabi (urtht'r revealed that the project h ad co n-
t3Cted scit'ntists (rom the Interllationa l lnsti tuk of Tropical Agriculture {lITAl,lbadan, He said th at they would bring thriT al'f'r1 ise to bnr o n the need to increase the yield of staple CTOpS and boost (ood productio n ill the state. Earlier. the Programme Manager of 8auchl Slate Agrtcul-
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AlhaJI Illiyasu GitaI, $.'1ld th e o rganisation disbursed m31erials worth N9. 2 mil · lion to women al1d youths ill tile state belwecn 2006 Ind 2010. The materials hI" said were ~ nimallract ion packag~, .lma-II ruminants upgrading and kr.rO£ene driven incubators. among
othen. He said that N)6 m illion had bci:n uprnded on !ITA ou t- re.ach programmts In fishl"ries and agro.(orestry developmt;nl In 20 11. He funhu said t hat a NU 2 millio n con t rac t had bl"en awarded for the co nstru ction of )o Loreho lr:s and maintenance of 12 rural acc~s road s. (NAN)
NEXIM partners US EXIM bank to boost agriculture
Confab to identify agric, export opportunities in Benue
THE Nigett:tll ExPOI't · Import Bank (NEXIM) 53)'$ il is partne r lng with the Unltr.d Sll~les EXlM bwk to btJOst tile de\-elop men t of agriculture In the country. Mr Robens Orl'a, NEX· IM'.l Managlnr: D irector, said lilt! in an in terview with tht' News Agen cy of Nigeria (NAN) at the end of a clos-td·dollr m ee ti ng wit h the EX IM delegation y~tcnla}' h Abu'a. Orya said th3t lht; I ,w1rich COI11-
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inlmcdlalely. menced would a plore other sec· to rs o f the eco nomy to en hance the developmenl of lhl" cou nt ry. He said; "The officials from US EXJM Lank have seen that Nigeria has a lot of potentla.b: they ha ve dODe a couple o f thillgs with .lo me Afrian co un has I ~s
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can work with tht; relevant .ltakeholders. especially thl" NEXIM bank and · h ow we can conunen ce a relationship and rapid ly deepen that relationship. "Wt; have been d ucuss· Ing with specifi c rf'fl!:rence to some 5f!(lors. l11e onl! that con c~ms NEXIM Is that of Agricu lture and then the C lean Develop· ment Mech anism project (COM),Acco rd ing to him, ot her area o rinlerest to the US EXIM bank Is
ge neratio n. He said that the meetIng wl lh the US Ul'ort bank officials cen tred o n specific proj ects to en able it achieved the needed ImpaCL · What we have dOlle is, we said, why don't we rocus on th e oncs in IIgriculture because th ey don't w. nt to go Inlo a green field project now. -They want to finance a p roJ«t thaI is al read y on ground so th ai lh~ effecl will be felt immed iately."
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FOLLOWI NG th e dwln ' dlin g fortuncs of ag ri c ulture in Bt;nur: Siale, Com munity FOOlprints, • non -profit organisation is orga ni zin g an ag rl cul turr: co nference that will ulweil the agric pell"nlials of Benue Slate to local.nd Inlernalionallll\'estors. The Project coo rdina· tor, M r. SOli Gyoh said in statemenl that the "co nfert'nce Is prima ril y aimed atslimulatlng pub.
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lic aw~reneu and enga gt;· ment with th e 0I'I, orlu · nilie~, prog ramm l"5 as wr:1I as policies toward s e nhan Ci ng the ro le o f Agri cultuTt; u a stable income secto r in Benur: Siall"." The progralllme sch edu led for October )1, at t he Uni vusity of Agri · c ulture Makurdi, Senue Stat e Is laggr:d - Idc n · ti(ying Capacitil"s and O pportunilies for addt;d value a nd income based Agro sector In 8 I"nu t'~.
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Tht; School of Basic and Remedial Studies, Altmadu Bello Untversily, Funtuil wishes In Invite c:andidate~
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