Agriculture Agency
Commences Intervention Programme
Vin Oliji, Calabar.
The
Rome based International Fund for Agricultural Development, IFAD,
has commenced an eight-year intervention programme, geared
towards improving living standards of communities in rural Niger
Delta region of Nigeria.
The natural resource management Officer in the Niger Delta
Region, Mr. Innocent Ogbin told Voice of Nigeria in Calabar,
Cross River State, that the intervention programme would focus
on institutional strengthening and capacity development.
According to him, the IFAD programmes are meant to complement
the efforts of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC and
the Nigerian government in the provision of basic amenities and
youth empowerment in the six states of the region.
He outlined some of the projects already executed in the region
by IFAD to include provision of electricity, water, construction
of classroom blocks, rural road network and markets. Others are
skill acquisition for the youths and seminars on the proper
utilisation of natural resources.
Qasim/Yinka
