Nigeria: New Rice Scheme to Engage 1000 Women, Youths

Aug 17, 2021 | Gilbert Ekugbe
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Over 1000 women and youths are expected to benefit from a new rice initiative (wet season) aimed at boosting rice production in the country post pandemic.

The Project Coordinator of Fevick Resources, Mr. Samuel Oluwafemi Adeshina, said by the time the rice programme kicks off, it would empower clusters of women and youths agripreneur farming together on a contiguous arable farmland to produce high quality and quantity of rice paddy for processing during this year’s wet season farming in Nigeria.

Adeshina, who addressed a press briefing in Abuja recently, stated that the new wet season rice farming project would link farmers to new technologies and high yield seedlings.