How President Goodluck Jonathan Ended 40 Years Of Corruption In Agriculture – Minister




November 3, 2014 – Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina today came had on those criticizing President Goodluck Jonathan’s transformation agenda, stressing that for the first time in Nigeria the President eradicated corruption in agriculture which he said has been a bane of the sector.

The minister who was speaking at a press conference in Abuja commended the President, noting that distribution of fertilizer has been fraught with fraud and always hijacked by people at the peril of real farmers.

He said that for the first time in 40 years, fertilisers are now delivered directly to farmers through their e-wallet , phones, which he said has never happened before anywhere in Africa.

He said through the process about 15 million farmers have been registered adding that today a lot of Nigerians are embracing agriculture as a means of livelihood.

He said the transformation in the agriculture sector had witnessed a monumental change like never before.

“We ended 40 years of corruption in the fertiliser sector. The old system of government direct procurement and distribution of fertiliser was corrupt, he said.

He said that the sum of N873 billion was spent on fertiliser subsidies between 1980 and 2010 while nearly 90 per cent of farmers never received the fertilisers and that about N776 billion was estimated to have been lost to corruption or an average of N26 billion annually.

He explained that 1.3 million tons of fertilisers and 55,000 tons of improved seeds have been delivered directly to farmers.
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FG’s Intervention in Agriculture Has Stabilized Prices of Commodities – Novus Agro




January 7, 2015 – Novus Agro Limited, an internationally acclaimed firm involved in agriculture, marketing and research in farm products has commended the Federal Government for investing in agriculture even as oil prices continue to nosedive in the international market.

It noted that government’s intervention has been able to stabilize price of agricultural commodities in Nigeria.

Strategy Manager Novus Agro Limited Mrs. Obiajuru Luya who was speaking at a press conference said diversifying the nation’s economy remains the best option to absorb shocks from falling oil prices.

Luya explained that the Federal Government’s efforts in the agricultural sector has been able to help stabilise prices of agricultural commodities in the country.
“Since inception, Novus Agro has continued to pioneer the use of technology and information to solve critical agricultural value chain challenges.

“Our model is based on the use of a highly trained network of field agents and our proprietary mobile technology platform to provide a last-mile connection between rural farmers and markets.”

Also speaking the Head Business Development Novous Agro Limited Mr. Ibrahim Buwanhot explained that they have been able to collect commodity price data nationally and continuously in 50 markets for over four years.

” Novus Agro has built a price information monitoring system in 50 markets across 20 states in Nigeria. The system tracks prices of at least 25 major commodities on a market day basis from each of these markets. The data collected is rigorously vetted and uploaded to our price information database within hours of being collected.

“Novus Agro’s price information, analysis and trends have been patronized by various key participants in the agro space such as Sahel Capital, Syngenta, Sosaco, Tomato Jos, among others. Our data has also caught the interest of world class organizations such as GEMS,, the World Bank and Accenture. The Central Bank of Nigeria.”

To make more impact in the agricultural sector he added that the firm has also in the past year recruited and trained a network of young, technologically-savvy market facilitators in 142 communities across 10 states in the country.

” We succeeded in making it one of the largest dedicated network of market facilitators in the country. Novus Agro’s facilitators live and work in their communities providing vital commodity aggregation services to farming communities as well as playing a para-extension role to support better yield from farms.

“Novus Agro’s field operations both in price enumeration and market facilitation are reliant on our technology platform that links field operations to our online platform. The system is based on an innovative integration of web and mobile internet, allowing for deployment of first world technology solutions in some of the most remote farming communities in the country. Commodity aggregation and price enumeration is done by Novus Agro’s field agents armed with mobile devices running our custom applications. ”

He further explained that the firms wide network of facilitators and pilot operations across the network has allowed it to develop local insights to available infrastructure, logistics issues and market practices across the communities that they work in.

“Over the past year, Novus Agro has established relationships with various buyers and processors of agricultural commodities in Nigeria. We were able to generate over 40,000MT of demand through our business development effort though fulfilling only 1,000MT of this demand from our network of 6,400 registered farmers under our market test program, ” he added.


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Good

Only semi-illiterate Nigerians and those who actually hate the country would vote for Buhari

You see how GEJ has revolutionized agriculture to the extent that the wholr world is talking about it.
In contrast, Buhari is a farmer but one who is stuck in 1900 ways of farming. As a farmer he does not know that he should produce his cows in modern farms and stop grazing his animals all over Nigeria. Unlike Buhari, even Obasanjo understands modern farming methods.

Buhari is so stuck in his old ways that during the regime of Lam Adeshina in Oyo State, when there was a skirmish between Yoruba crop farmers and Fulani animal pastoralists he made a historic gaffe. The Fulanis, BUhari's brothers, had grazed their animals on Yoruba people's crops, so there was a fight and people were killed. Buhari took a trip to Oyo to see Adeshina and complained to him that Adeshina's people (Yoruba farmers) were killing his (Buhari's) people (the aggressor who grazed their animals on people's crops).

You see how un-innovative Buhari is, and on top of that how sectional, parochial and unfeeling he is towards others who are not of his ethnicity?


See informing news here http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/11/day-lam-adesina-clashed-with-buhari-marwa-others/

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I hope these illitrates(apc e-warrior) dey read watin oga Jona don do.


Later una go carry una amebor mouth dey shout sai buhari!! Like ashawo wey quarell over costumer

A working govt



It will never be pretty smooth and easy to rebuild destroyed Nigeria in a twinkle of an eye, damage of one hour always take pretty much time let alone havoc layed for decades.


A patient dog eat the fatty part of the bone, Nigeria SHOULD WAIT for more time for the total reconstruction of the damages perpetrated by our past leader including the illiterate candidate of APC.

We Nigerians shouldn't rush from frying pan to fire in a haste for a magical transformation which is absolutely impossible, it have to ride through some stony paths to get there and that's what we are witnessing now.