Minister of Agriculture, Adesina Akinwumi, says Federal
Government is targeting 13,029 farm families for various support schemes in
2013.
Akinwumi said this in Ohafia during the inauguration
of Abia North Chamber of Commerce, Mines Industries and Agriculture ANCCIMA.
The minister, who gave a keynote address during the
event, was represented by the Director of Cooperatives in the ministry, Dickson
Okolo.
He said that farmers and out growers in the state
would receive 3.9 million bundles of improved cassava cuttings from the Root
and Tuber Expansion Programme RTEP and other bodies.
Akinwunmi said that the Federal Government had
concluded arrangements to establish 15 demonstration and trial plots within the
out growers network in the state.
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