{"id":32809,"date":"2014-11-04T06:57:39","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T05:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=32809"},"modified":"2014-11-04T06:57:39","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T05:57:39","slug":"jonathan-ended-40-years-corruption-agric-sector-says-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/jonathan-ended-40-years-corruption-agric-sector-says-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Ended 40 Years Of Corruption In Agric Sector \u2014Says Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mailview-right\" class=\"offset uibox\">\n<div id=\"messagecontent\">\n<div class=\"leftcol\">\n<div id=\"messagebody\">\n<div class=\"message-htmlpart\">\n<div class=\"rcmBody\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, has said that President Goodluck Jonathan`s administration has, through its Agriculture Transformation Agenda, ended four decades of corruption in the sector.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said this on Monday in Abuja at the Public Affairs Forum, organised by the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr Doyin Okupe.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The minister said the transformation in the agriculture sector had witnessed a monumental change in the way and manner agriculture and its related activities were handled.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe ended 40 years of corruption in the fertiliser sector. The old system of government direct procurement and distribution of fertiliser was corrupt,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to him, over N873 billion was spent on fertiliser subsidies between 1980 and 2010 while nearly 90 per cent of farmers never received subsidised fertilizers.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also said that over N776 billion was estimated to have been lost to corruption or an average of N26 billion \u00a0annually, a situation that displaced the private sector.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0Adesina said the ministry, under the current arrangement, had built a national database of 10.5 million farmers, which had increased agriculture participation in every state of the federation.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He further said that the Growth Enhancement Support Scheme (GES) of the Federal Government had increased farmers\u2019 access to fertiliser from 11 per cent to 92.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Out of this figure, he said, 1.3 million tons of fertiliser had been delivered to farmers, while 55,000 tons of improved seeds had been delivered to farmers.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The minister, while highlighting President Jonathan administration\u2019s \u00a0achievement in the agriculture sector, also pointed out that Nigeria was the first country in Africa to deliver inputs to farmers through e-wallet.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also said that the cassava transformation initiative had led to the introduction of 20 per cent cassava bread, a development that led to the establishment of over 30 bakeries across the country.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He further said that the ministry, with support from Bank of Industry and Bank of Agriculture, had ensured self-sufficiency in rice production, leading to production of million tones of the commodity.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The investment, he said, had run into billions of naira, adding that several crops, including sorghum, cocoa, maize, oil palm, fish and animal production had also been increased significantly.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The minister said this was in addition to youth participating actively in the entire value chain circle.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He announced the completion of 33 silos with capacity of 1.1 million tones across the country, nine conditioned warehouses and a 250 million dollars investment by Blumberg.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said this was geared towards making Nigeria the hub for manufacturing warehouses.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the four-day forum, with the theme: \u201cThe Jonathan`s administration: Four Impactful Years,\u201d was organised to highlight the achievements of the President Jonathan-led administration.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Okupe had earlier said that President Goodluck Jonathan remained the most performing president the country had since independence (NAN)<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_signature\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"message\" class=\"statusbar\" style=\"text-align: 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