By; NICHOLAS DEKERA, Kaduna
Marketing Enterprise Development Adviser to the International Funds for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Hajiya Fatima Buhari, who is a daughter to President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday, lauded Governor Darius Ishaku of Taraba State for tremendous support to the Value Chain Development Programme (VCDP).
Buhari made the commendation while interacting with rice and cassava farmers, who were being supported by the IFAD’s VCDP in the state.
According to her, Ishaku has been outstanding in the payment of counterpart funding for the success of the project for the good of the people.
“I want to commend Gov Ishaku for his tremendous support to VCDP activities which has led to satisfactory performance by the state team.
“The performance of VCDP in Taraba is very satisfactory, the evidence of the success is so glaring and we are proud of this,” she said.
Buhari also visited the Tika Kuru cassava process factory, an off taker for Taraba cassava farmers, where she was impressed with the facilities at the company and pledged to ensure partnership in more areas.
General Manager of the company, Mr. Dinesh Tiwar, commended VCDP for properly organizing farmers into clusters for easy farming business.
Earlier, State Programme Coordinator (SPC), Mr Irimiya Musa said the Taraba VCDP was pleased to play host to Hajiya Buhari and her team.
He equally commended Governor Ishaku for the prompt payment of counterpart funding to allow timely activities which have been responsible for the resounding successes recorded in rice and cassava production, processing and marketing in the state.
