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AGRICULTURE WILL PRODUCE AFRICA’S FUTURE MILLIONAIRES AND BILLIONAIRES
AGRICULTURE WILL PRODUCE AFRICA’S FUTURE MILLIONAIRES AND BILLIONAIRES – ADESINA...Fri, Mar 13, 2015 The paper reports that the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, has predicted that Africa’s future millionaires and billionaires will make their money from agriculture as the governments marshal out plans to unlock wealth from the soil. He spoke Friday in Abuja as the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD), and the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) launched the Agricultural Transformation Agenda Support Program Phase 1 (ATASP-1) in Abuja. The ATASP-1 is financed by AfDB to the tune of USD 170 million and aims at creating additional incomes to an increased number of producers and entrepreneurs in the agricultural sector in Nigeria by providing about 120,000 jobs along the value chain of priority commodities. An additional 20 million tons of key commodity food...