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ONE of the many legacies of the Muhammadu Buhari administration  on which the   significant changes  in the agricultural sector are  hinged, is the establishment of the National Agricultural Development Fund (NADF).  The President signed the Act establishing the Fund in October 2022. The NADF  establishment Act has nine functions, all of which are aimed at giving critical financial support that will facilitate  rapid and  sustainable   growth in various aspects of the  Nigerian agricultural sector for the benefit of all citizens. One of the functions of the Fund listed at section 8 in Part II of the Act  is the provision of money  “to support agricultural development in Nigeria taking into consideration the need for  food production and food security in Nigeria, in all its ramifications,  including crop production. livestock, fisheries, poultry and agro-forestry.” The Fund is expected  to  “provide finance for the implementation of agricultural policies and strengthen agricultural institutions within the framework of national priorities and strategies.”  And  significantly, it should  “provide funds for on-lending to farmers and corporate bodies through financial institutions including microfinance banks, cooperative societies, organisations, farmer groups and institutions on appropriate soft terms.”

If all the functions were implemented patriotically and with a practical desire to achieve the purposes of the Fund, there will surely be a leap in agricultural activities which will boost  productivity and deepen food security  for over 200 million Nigerians. It is hoped that one of the benefits of the  NADF will  be ending  financing for  agriculture from the budget cycle  of January to December. It  leads to releasing money to the Ministries of Agriculture long after the wet season has ended. Funding for dry season farming is similarly late.  This anormally should be discarded.  If used judiciously and in the way it was conceived and envisaged in the Act, the NADF will surely have visible impact on the Nigerian agricultural sector in the same way the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) contributes infrastructure and extends  other supports  to the tertiary segment of the public education sector  in Nigeria.

It is important to note that the establishment of NADF is just one of the  dozens of initiatives introduced  by the Buhari-led administration to  strengthen  the agricultural sector which contribution  to the Gross Domestic Product  (GDP) of NIgeria surpassed those of the Oil and Gas,  Manufacturing and the Entertainment sectors combined. For instance, the  Presidential Fertiliser Initiative has ended the habit of importing fertilisers and  took us to  self-sufficiency in the commodity. Nigeria now has a capacity to produce seven million tons of fertilisers. This was achieved by reactivating moribund fertiliser blending plants and the establishment of new ones.  From net importer of fertilisers, Nigeria has become an exporter of top grade urea fertiliser to  the United States of America, India, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico.  The fertiliser exports will net in $5 billion or one trillion naira yearly, while saving our country’s foreign reserves. Just like other forward looking countries, Nigeria is set to benefit from the Hand-in-Hand Initiative of the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO). The focus of the initiative is on strengthening food and nutrition security, managing natural resources sustainably, reducing disaster risk effectively as well as achieving economic diversification speedily.

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Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Mohammed Mahmoud Abubakar, said the priority commodities for intervention in select states under the Hand-in-Hand initiative include Rice, Sorghum, Soybean, Maize, Fish, Tomato, Cassava and Dairy. The revival of the National Agricultural Land Development Authority (NALDA) with the objective of achieving food and fiber security in Nigeria is one of the efforts made by the Buhari administration  to boost the agriculture industry.  Its main activities include the establishment of Integrated Farm Estates in the country where youths are engaged in various aspects of commercial  agriculture: crop production, poltry and livestock keeping, fish farming and growing different vegetables. The intensified domestic  rice production initiative of the administration has positively touched nearly  every rice-eater in almost every household in the country. The Anchor-Borrowers Programme for rice of the Central Bank of Nigeria with expert support from the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development,  has restored our worthy culture of eating the food we grow at home.  Nigerians now rarely eat smuggled expired foreign rice.  Families  prefer and eat fresh Nigerian rice which is literally grown and processed to high standard in their neighbourhoods.

There is a very strong hope and much expectations among Nigerians  that if the resources of  NADF  are  applied  effectively, there will be positive effects on the development of the agriculture sector, perhaps similar to the impact of the application of  the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF)  in the provision of infrastructure and facilitation for other development activities to improve  the welbeing of Nigerians.

  • Dambatta is a retired Federal Director of Information.

 

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