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Nigeria needs double-digit investment in agric —IITA

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The Director-General, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Dr; Nteranya Sanginga, has said that a double-digit investment in the agriculture sector, backed by a vibrant rural infrastructur

al network, will help states to accelerate the transformation of agriculture in the country.

African heads of state had, at an event in Maputo, Mozambique in 2003, made a commitment to invest at least 10 per cent of their annual budget in agriculture. “One of the countries that has fulfilled the commitment is Ethiopia, which is today investing more than 10 percent and that country is witnessing a rapid transformation in agriculture.”

 

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