By Franca Ofili
Mr Joseph Okeke, President, Agricultural Traders Welfare Association (ATWA), in Abuja on Thursday called on the Federal Government to grant soft loans to enable Nigerians to invest in the agricultural sector.
Okeke made the appeal during the inauguration of the Implementation Committee of the Partnership Venture between the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment and ATWA in the Establishment of Agricultural Produce International Markets.
He said that granting of soft loans should be part of the incentives to encourage more investors beside government’s efforts to create a better environment for importers and exporters,
Okeke said that the association had conducted a study of various agricultural belts of the six zones and all the states which had enabled the members to identify crops, animals and farm produce that had comparative advantage in each location.
“It is our plan to construct specialised markets based on the storage,…
Source: News Agency of Nigeria
