Agric: Fadama III In Niger Spends N42m To Stem Post Harvest Loses

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By; BALA B. BITRUS, Minna

The Additional Financing, (AF) project of Fadama III in Niger State said it has expended about N42 million in stemming post harvest loses of agricultural produce for farmers in five council areas of the state.

The amount is believed to have been spent on teaching techniques on modern loss elimination, effective harvest methods and proper storage techniques for farm produce.

Similarly, the Fadama III project has organized anti corruption workshops for agricultural desk officers and facilitators to inculcate the virtues of integrity, probity, accountability and transparency on public funds channelled by government and development partners in agriculture.

The Coordinator of Fadama project in the state, Aliyu Usman Kutigi disclosed this in his address at a one day workshop for its desk officers and facilitators on probity, accountability and transparency to enable the participants factor into the F6ederal government’s fight against corruption.

Kutigi said the workshop was critical and timely even as he charged the participants to internalize the lessons imparted on them from the workshop to farmers in their respective communities and local government councils.

The state Coordinator said the programmes of the Fadama project in the state wouldn’t have been a success if emphasis was not laid on zero tolerance for corruption and other sundry sordid practices to ensure judicious utilization of available resources. He attributed the successes recorded by the Fadama project to the the prompt implementation of its policies and programmes.

The workshop organized by the, Institute of Leadership and Governance (INLAG) in conjunction with Niger State Fadama III AF Coordination Office, Minna, is aimed at curbing and eradicating corruption and such sundry tendencies.

The Coordinator tasked, the desk officers to have attitudinal change in handling public funds for the benefits of the generality of citizens in the state.

A resource persons for the workshop and former Registrar, Niger State College of Education, Minna, Yusuf Muhammad Makusidi said probity in governance was one of the basic requirements for effective and efficient administration for socio economic growth and development.

The resource person stressed that all facets of corruption must be well tackled if human society is to make reasonable impact in organized human communities.

The Coordinator, INLAG for Northern States and Director of Programmes of INLAG, Danladi Umar Abdulhameed emphasized the need for value re-orientation for Nigerians.

Abdulhameed, a forner Niger state Director of the National Orientation Agency and Commissioner of Information, suggested that patriotism, respect for rule of laws, human rights, discipline and rewards for hard work and punishment for deviant conducts and aberrant acts by offenders should be pursued in our national life.

He said Nigerians should shun all forms of corrupt tendencies which he noted have eaten deep into the fabrics of our society and eroded our esteem as a people.

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