Tubers of yam
The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture and its partners in June 2012 announced a $12 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, for a yam improvement project to enhance the incomes of three million yam farmers in West Africa.
Its initial focus is on 200,000 smallholder farm families in Nigeria and Ghana, 90 per cent of whom cultivate less than two acres. It’s time to ask from the programme coordinators, the catchment areas in Nigeria this project will target and whether the project has taken off already and who are the beneficiaries; how were they selected; the information supplied to the public; and the channel used.
The word is transparency. The lesson the rampaging floods should teach us is that there will be lean years and prosperous years in the output of foodstuffs. Are our planners listening?
No comments:
Post a Comment