The
presidency has listed President Muhammadu Buhari top 64 achievements, in
response to former vice president, Atiku Abubakar #BuhariChallenge.
Buharis media aide,
Lauretta Onochie, released the achievements in a statement on Facebook titled
‘Sixty Four Achievements of President Muhammadu Buhari in Agricultural Sector’.
See list of the
achievements below;
1) The anti-corruption
drive of Mr. President put to a halt the exogenous leakages in the Agricultural
sector to encourage, empower, and enhance the locally made farm produce thereby
increasing our internally generated revenue (IGR) index and foreign exchange
capacity and reserve to over $45 Billion in cash and bonds.
2) President Buhari
initiated the Home Grown Feeding Programme which is designed to put an end to
importation and market monopoly of farm produce that can be grown here in our
country which is a pilot vehicle to sustainable economic, agricultural,
academic and job creation across the length and breadth of our nation.
3) Under President Buhari,
the Standing Inter-Ministerial Technical Committee on Zero-Reject of
Agricultural Commodities and Produce / Non-oil Exports in Nigeria was
inaugurated.
4) Under the Buhari-led
administration, Nigeria has benefitted from 13.1billion Euros honeybee project.
5) The Buhari
administration has commenced steps improving the standards of Nigeria’s
agricultural exports to align with global standards due to the rejection of our
produce at the EU Border Controls.
6) Under President Buhari,
Standards and Quality Control measures have been developed in.
7) Under President Buhari
administration at the end of 2016, agricultural goods as a share of total trade
got N212.73bn and 4.02 percent and Agricultural goods exports were 2.7 percent
higher in Q4 2016 than Q3 2016.
8.) Under the Buhari-led
administration, Sesame seeds contributed N6.46billion to Agricultural product
exports in the fourth quarter of 2016.
9) In the fourth quarter of
2016, Frozen shrimps and prawns chipped in N4.4billion to Agricultural product
exports under PMB’s administration.
10) Under President Buhari
administration in the fourth quarter of 2016, Flour and meals of soya beans
contributed N2.59billion to agricultural product exports
11) Under President Buhari
administration in the fourth quarter of 2016, cashew nuts in shell contributed
N0.95billion to Agricultural product exports with the Buhari-led
administration.
12) Crude palm kernel
accounted for N0.62 billion of the total Agricultural exports under the
President Buhari administration in the fourth quarter of 2016.
13) Under the President
Buhari administration, the agricultural universities coordinating agency is
being revitalized as stipulated in the enabling Act which will work closely
with the Nigerian University Commission and development partners to re-focus
the universities of agriculture in the country.
14) The Livelihood
Improvement Family Enterprises (LIFE) programme was initiated by the Buhari
Administration and it is aimed at bringing life back to rural communities
through the empowerment of youth, women and other vulnerable groups across the
country.
15) Livelihood Improvement
Family Enterprises (LIFE) Programme initiated by the President Buhari
administration is geared towards promoting community-based on-farm and off-farm
business activities as a model for job and wealth creation amongst unemployed
youth and women in rural and suburban households.
16) Livelihood Improvement
Family Enterprises (LIFE) Programmes under President Buhari are expected to
establish 150,000 cooperatives nationwide under commodity value chain groups.
17) Livelihood Improvement
Family Enterprises (LIFE) programme under President Buhari will establish and
operate up to 1,000 cottage industries in the country, and ultimately engage
about 1,995,500 youth and 997,500 women for enhanced productivity.
18) Livelihood Improvement
Family Enterprises (LIFE) programme under President Buhari would add about
5,965,000 metric tons of foods to the national food store.
19) Anchor Borrowers’
Programme is an intervention of the Buhari administration aimed at
fast-tracking access of rural farmers to finance productivity.
20) The Anchor Borrowers
Programme (ABP) of the Central Bank of Nigeria under the Buhari-led
administration has made available N82billion in funding to 350,000 farmers of
rice, wheat, maize, cotton, cassava, poultry, soybeans and groundnut; who have
cultivated about 400,000 hectares of land.
21) The Buhari-led
administration has made provision of agricultural credit for financing the
production of rice, wheat, ginger, maize and soybeans in Kebbi, Niger, Kaduna,
Kano, Enugu, Benue, Zamfara, Anambra and Kwara States.
22) The Anchor Borrower’s
Programme (ABP) under Buhari’s administration has provided a quantum of money
for dry season farming in 2015, wet season rice and wheat farming in 2016 and
is currently supporting the 2016 dry season farming in many states.
23) The President Buhari
administration has commenced the use of National Soil Map Data, with the
promotion of the use of soil-specific fertilizer formulations and application
in prescribed dosages based on soil types following the conduct of soil
mapping/test to enhance agricultural production and productivity.
24) Under President Buhari
administration a resurrected interest in agriculture has awakened among
smallholder farmers.
25) Under the Buhari-led
administration, Nigeria’s fertilizer market is growing.
26) The President Buhari
administration has signed an agreement with the Government of Morocco for the
supply of fertilizer raw materials on concessionary terms to boost local
blending to facilitate making soil and crop-specific fertilizer blends available
and accessible to smallholder Nigeria farmers.
27) The Ministry of
Agriculture under President Buhari is facilitating the timely access of farmers
to appropriate quality seeds.
28) The President Buhari
administration has facilitated seed trading locally and internationally through
the application of regionally agreed principles and rules.
29) The enabling
environment for private investment in the seed industry has been created by the
Buhari-led administration.
30) Under President Buhari,
the National Irrigation Policy and Strategy has been developed and focuses on
the need to overcome the irrigation challenges and put available irrigation
facilities in the country into effective use.
31) The PMB Administration
has assessed the status of infrastructure in all the 12 River Basin Development
Authorities (RBDAs) hence, commenced immediate and effective use of the
facilities for commercial farming.
32) Under President Buhari,
the Bank of Agriculture (BOA) has been strengthened for improved delivery of
services through consolidation and recapitalization in collaboration with the
Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) to ensure loan disbursement at a single
digit interest regime in the agricultural sector as obtainable in developed and
emerging economies.
33) The President Buhari
administration has approved the restructuring, re-capitalizing, and
repositioning of the Bank of Agriculture (BOA).
34) The Buhari
administration has secured the approval of a grant of $1.1 million from the
African Development Bank (AfDB) for the restructuring of the Bank of
Agriculture, aimed at staff training to strengthen service delivery.
35) The President Buhari
administration has embarked on the re-validation of the claims of agro-dealers
and input suppliers under 2014 wet and 2014/2015 dry seasons to ensure that
genuine claims are paid by the government.
36) The President Buhari
administration has facilitated the payment of the sum of N20 billion, as part
of the debts owed agro-dealers while efforts are on to fully settle the
outstanding liabilities.
37) The President Buhari
administration has established a N50 billion mechanization fund to facilitate
the second phase of Agricultural Equipment Hiring Enterprise (AEHE) to roll-out
6,000 tractors and 13,000 harvest and post-harvest equipment units across the
country.
38) With the Buhari-led
administration, Tractors and Implements were rolled out in Ilorin and Abuja on
January 12, 2016, to support targeted commodity value chains.
39) The rising spate of
hostilities and attendant insecurity arising from clashes between crop farmers
and nomadic herdsmen has raised serious concern within the government.
Accordingly, the PMB administration has commenced efforts towards the
resolution of pastoralists-farmers conflicts through the provision of 55,000
hectares of land by 11 states as part of the 5,000 hectares each expected from
the 19 northern states for the development of pasture/paddocks grazing
reserves.
40) The Buhari
administration has established 40 large-scale rice processing plants and 18
High-Quality Cassava Flour (HQCGF) plants with a stake commitment of China EXIM
(85 percent) and Nigeria Bank of Industry (BoI) (15 percent) through
concessional credit facilities of US$383,140,375.60 for the rice mills and
US$143,722,202.40 for the HQCF Plants.
41) The President Buhari
administration through the Ministry of Agriculture is embarking on a programme
of distribution of rice mills, of ten tons per day capacity, 20 tons a day, 40
tons a day, 50 tons and a few 100 tons. Collectively between them, the capacity
for rice milling will be close to 3,000 tons a day nationwide. That is expected
to close the gap between paddy availability and mills to process it.
42) The President Buhari
administration has established 10 large-scale rice processing plants and 6
High-Quality Cassava Flour plants to be owned and operated by the private
sector and would be funded by the Special Rice Processing Intervention Fund and
the WB Assisted Agricultural Development Policy Operation [AgDPO] Funds.
43) Through President
Buhari administration, Real GDP in agriculture grew by 4.11 percent in the year
2016, and this growth rate was higher than that recorded in 2015 of 3.72
percent.
44) Under Buhari’s
administration as captured by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), there
was a continuing strong growth in Agriculture (especially Crop Production) in
the Q4 of 2016.
45) Agriculture contributed
21.26 percent to nominal GDP in the Q4 of 2016 and the sector grew by 6.45
percent year-on-year under President Buhari administration.
46) In the Buhari-led
administration, the contribution of Agriculture to overall GDP in real terms
was 25.49 percent in the quarter under review, higher than its share of 24.18
percent in the corresponding quarter of 2015.
47) The Ministry of
Agriculture under President Buhari administration also provided 2283 bags of
industrial salt to hides and skin dealers in 12 targeted states.
48) The President Buhari
administration placed a ban on rice importation and that has saved Nigeria an
average of $5 Million daily.
49) The growing success
story on agriculture in Buhari’s Administration has prompted more youths to
commence full production in agriculture.
50) More than 7 million
Nigerians are actively employed in agriculture under the Buhari Government’s
diversification agenda and the Ministry of Agriculture is working to ensure
that Agriculture will offer 20 million jobs in the nearest future.
51) Nigeria’s milled rice
production has increased by about 60 percent, from 2.5 million MT in 2015, to 4
million MT in 2017 under the President Buhari administration.
52) The Buhari-led
administration set up the Presidential Fertilizer Initiative (PFI) to deliver
commercially significant quantities of affordable and high-quality fertilizer
to the Nigerian farmer at the right time
53) The Presidential
Fertilizer Initiative (PFI) under the President Buhari administration has
resulted in the revitalization of 14 blending plants across the country, with a
total installed capacity in excess of 2 million MT.
54) The Presidential
Fertilizer Initiative (PFI) under the President Buhari administration has
resulted in benefits which will include annual savings of US$200 million in
foreign exchange, and N60 billion annually in budgetary provisions for
Fertilizer subsidies.
55) Under President Buhari
administration, the current cumulative in terms of IGR generated through
Agriculture since the fall in the price of crude globally has placed
agriculture as the best alternative for creating wealth and increasing our
National Foreign Reserve to an all-time high.
56) Nigeria’s economy has
since bounced back after the recession of 2015/2016 and has continued to grow
back as the strongest stabilizing economy in Africa under Buhari-led
administration.
57) Through the Buhari-led
administration, agriculture is already ripe to be the next green oil and global
gold the world has ever seen and the green-rush will lead all roads to Nigeria.
58) Buhari-led
Administration has revived 11 moribund plants with a combined capacity of over
two million metric tonnes.
59) In 2017 under the
President Buhari administration, Presidential Fertilizer Initiative (PFI)
delivered 10 million 50kg bags(500,000MT) of NPK 20:10:10 fertilizer at a price
of N5,500 in time for the wet season which is down from the price of N9,000 per
50kg bag in 2016, a 40% reduction in price.
60) Under President Buhari
administration there is a higher patronage for the country’s rail network due
to movement of raw materials and finished goods.
61) Under President Buhari
administration, the bag-making sector of the economy was boosted, with over
10million packaging bags produced exclusively for Presidential Fertilizer
Initiative (PFI).
62) The Presidential
Fertilizer Initiative (PFI) has been able to create 60,000 direct jobs and even
a higher number of indirect jobs under the Buhari-led administration.
63) The Buhari-led
administration has cut down on imports of agricultural products in order to
enable self-sufficiency in food production and consumption.
64) Under President Buhari
administration, The Green Alternative (TGA) was initiated, a major policy
thrust to build an agri-business economy capable of delivering sustained
prosperity by meeting domestic food security goals, generate exports, support
sustainable income and job.
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