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?
- John Jimoh,
9, Osunlaja Street, Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State.
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