The bank is providing $134 million to achieve this.
Browsing: Maize
This is part of his nationwide broadcast on Monday.
The police charged Murtala, who resides in Kimkinau in Kaduna, with conspiracy, theft and forgery.
The maize was released from the Strategic Maize Reserve under the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme as part of efforts to control the prices of the product in the Nigerian market.
Ezekiel Mam, President of the association said this on Thursday in Abuja at a news conference tagged “Crisis and the survival of the Nigeria poultry industry: A critical moment”.
Olugbenga Adeyanju, Commissioner of Police in the state, said this on Wednesday in Yola.
Through the ongoing NIRSAL Agro Geo-Cooperative formation exercise, the farmers were structured into a group: Maize Dealers and Marketers Association of Nigeria Farmers AGC, and linked with financing under the CBN ABP.
The CBN made this known in a circular signed by Dr. Ozoemena Nnaji, the Director of Trade and Exchange Department of the apex bank, in Abuja.
The Lagos State Government has given no fewer than 650 farmers one ton of Downy Mildew Resistant and Leaf Streak Resistant Yellow hybrid maize seedlings as palliatives for them for the ongoing planting season.
Alhaji Bello Abubakar, the National President of the association, made the call while addressing newsmen in Abuja on Sunday.
A survey conducted by NAN in some markets in Keffi Local Government Area of the state on Wednesday revealed that the prices of maize and local rice had reduced but that of foreign rice still maintains its rate.
He said that maize importation would be inimical to the Agricultural Transformation Agenda of the Federal Government.
The National Treasury presented the document at the parliament during Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan’s three-year budget outlook in Cape Town