Farmers Launch Digital ID, Database For Accuracy

The All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) unveiled a integer individuality paper and database level connected Wednesday to fortify its farmers’ registry and accurately seizure the individuality of members nationwide.

AFAN besides inaugurated an advisory committee to correspond members’ interests and prosecute the authorities connected their behalf.

The nationalist president of AFAN, Dr Farouk Rabiu-Mudi, said the integer database would supply farmers with a level to question solutions to challenges successful farming systems and nutrient production.

“For long, farmers person been suffering successful Nigeria. We request to travel unneurotic with 1 dependable done our commodity associations truthful that farmers tin talk with unity and strength.

“Farmers represent astir 70 per cent of Nigeria’s population, yet we stay voiceless. Our information has not been decently documented,” helium said.

He explained that the advisory committee comprises radical with acquisition crossed concern sectors and ample organisations, who would enactment AFAN’s enactment and amplify farmers’ voices.

He said AFAN has besides inaugurated a farmers’ database and helpline to enactment members’ activities and code their complaints.

“With the helpline, a husbandman anyplace tin study issues, and we volition transmission the ailment to the close authorization for resolution,” helium said.

Rabiu-Mudi added that the caller integer ID paper would authenticate farmers’ rank and guarantee that information remains nether the power of commodity associations.

“For example, if an organisation wants to enactment maize farmers, specified enactment indispensable spell done the commodity relation president, who volition verify the beneficiaries earlier authorising merchandise of data,” helium said.

The caput of operations of Grotechnologies and the task consultant, Adeyemo Ayooluwa, said the level would assistance farmers entree loans and different benefits from the Bank of Agriculture.

He added that AFAN had deployed agents successful antithetic states to assistance adjacent the astir illiterate farmers successful enrolling successful the database.

Also, the nationalist president of the Poultry Association of Nigeria, Sunday Obiora, noted that immoderate authorities policies had reduced prices of feed, frozen chickenhearted and eggs.

He warned that the argumentation connected atom and nutrient importation could discourage section accumulation and origin farmers fiscal losses. (NAN)