The FADAMA programme says no fewer than 7,000 rice producing families in Enugu State have been added to the clusters of rice producers in the state.
Mr Hillary Onyekwere, the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer of Enugu State FADAMA Coordination Office, said this on Tuesday in Enugu during the 8th World Bank/FGN Joint Supervision Mission meeting in the state.
Onyekwere said that the FADAMA III Additional Financing (AF) project had made tremendous progress in efforts to revamp the rice value chain in the state.
He said that the increase in the quantity of rice produced in the state had somewhat provoked a reduction in the price of rice, adding that many residents of the state now patronised the FADAMA rice.
He said that the FADAMA Office had also embarked on the construction of feeder roads in rice producing areas across the state so as to facilitate the transportation of the farmers’ produce to the markets.
Onyekwere said that the FADAMA III (AF) project had invested over N2.
FADAMA grooms 7,000 households in Enugu State for rice production
