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The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations has said that it is planning to install 100 Farmer Field School (FFS) community groups in 2018 in Nigeria’s North-east region to boost agricultural production.
This comes as the UN agency said it urgently needs about $18 million to meet the needs of agro-based households in the crisis-ridden northeast.
The UN agency in a press release on Thursday, said that it had so far trained 51 agricultural experts in the FFS approach in North-east Nigeria.
FAO said: “In July and August 2018, an additional 26 experts across the three northeastern states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe were trained in FAO’s landmark programme for boosting pro-poor and participatory agricultural extension support worldwide.
“Following the training of an initial batch of…
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