ACFA farm managers, having concluded plan to concentrated her efforts on assisting cooperative farmers in the state to be well organized and to be able to mass produce and add value to their agricultural based products and to promote
small-scale entrepreneurs, believe that if this plan succeeds, it will go a long way to assisting the government in creating
employment opportunities for the teeming unemployed Youths, and also to help
in the struggle for food security and to reduce Rural/Urban Migration.
The total number of farmers that will benefit from this
program by the end of the pilot project will exceeded 3,000. Nearly 57% of the
total farmers record with ACFA. Of which reasonable numbers of farmers
affiliated to her were small-holders (of whom 28% were living in land reform
settlements), 29% were renters, and 11% were sharecroppers. More than half of
the total number of project the beneficiaries will enjoy shall be that they
will be assisted to cultivate not less than 1 ha; each.
The designed cooperative
The designed cooperative
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