The Minister of Agriculture and Food Security (FMAFS), Abubakar Kyari launched a Technical Committee on Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises(MSME), and National Argo-Allied Commodities Cooperatives of Nigeria (NACCON).
The committee has the mandate to facilitate the nation’s agricultural value chain, corporate Interactions, drives economic growth and creates job opportunities for Nigerian farmers.
Speaking during the inauguration ceremony in Abuja, Kyari, who was represented by the FMAFS Permanent Secretary, Dr. Marcus Ogunbiyi said the federal Government would maximise the full potential of MSMEs in production, processing, packaging, marketing and distribution in the agriculture ecosystem.
He said, “The aggregation of the produce of the micro, small, and medium producers is considered to be the economic pivot of any nation.
“Without the existence of the input or contribution of their produce, there can not be produce to showcase, which implies NO Agribusiness MSMEs, NO Nation.
Kyari said the development would provide the “Income generation by our farmers, increased trade and investment opportunities (locally and internationally), growth in foreign exchange earnings, job creation and poverty reduction.
“The Ministry is committed to improving the agricultural value chains to unlock value for farmers (MSMEs) with special focus on areas in which we have a comparative advantage by providing interventions in different commodity value chains and development of rural infrastructure for food production.”
