Federal government to allocate 200 million dollars for creation of Agric service centers

The federal government will allocate 200 million dollars for the creation of 780 agricultural service centres in the country.

Vice president, Yemi Osinbajo, made the disclosure at the 4th 2021 Nigerian diaspora investment summit held at the congress hall, the presidential villa, in Abuja.

The vice president was represented by the secretary of the federation, Mr Boss Mustapha.

He said the centres would serve as catalysts for training and equipment sharing under the Nigeria-Brazil bilateral development programme.

Osinbajo said the federal government had designed a programme to transform agriculture and scale up productivity in Nigeria called the green imperative Nigeria-Brazil bilateral development programme.

Osinbajo said that it was designed to sustain the economy through the use of Brazilian technology for the development of agricultural mechanisation to increase agricultural production and boost food security.