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fadlilies. This is conlclined in a document tilled. wHousehotd Si!lvings i!lnd Credit Polity Brief: Ge neral House hold Survey Post Planllng Round 2010,~ i!I copy of which was obtained by our correspondent from the National Bureau 0 1 Statistics. in AbuJa The repor! is the fallout 0 1 the Agriculture and General Panel Survey Household conducted by the National Bureau of SIi!ltistics in collaboration with th e World "'ok II no ted thai In spi te 01 the fact thai deposit money banks u.-ere the most preferred savings institution among household fanners. many still prefel1l!d laking 1000ns from microfinance instllutioN The report sli!lled. ~ h is lmpor tanllhi!lt 84 per cenl 01 individual farmers have no access to formal 50lvmgs and 98.8 per cent have no i!lccess to lormal credit. However, loan-taking from coopeRltives .....as most frequent among
category. educated Microfinanee organisations had a high frequency of use by individuals seeking credit with 21 per cent of uneduClIted individuals la kIng credit with II mittofinance organisation.' The Acting
Statistician General of Nigeria. A1haji Rasaq $anus!. who confirmed the Teporl • told our conesponclenl that the inability of sma1I~ holder fanners to have (>a5}' lI(CHI to credit facilities had hampered their ability to purchase modern equipmen t to boost food production. He said. ~ If farmers have access to credi t facili ties. they will be able to buy modern equipment which win boost their capacity to produce more food for local consumption and for expoft. "In the past decades. Nigeria was lilgging behind in producing sufficient and accurate agricultural production 51I1ti~tic! Thus. It has eKperienced substantial gaps in producing adequate and timely data to inform policy.making In order to achieve the goal of produd ng reliable and umeiy household and agriculluraJ sti!ltistics, the Bureau hu started the im plemen tation 01 i!l n innovi!ltJVe model lor
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