By Francis Onoiribholo - Bureau Chief Benin
Edo State Commissioner for Agriculture and National Resources, Abdul Oroh, said the objective of the Growth Enhancement Scheme (GES) is to facilitate government withdrawal from direct procurement and distribution of agriculture inputs.
Disclosing this in Benin City at the inauguration of the distribution of improved banana suckers (Williams Specie) to farmers, Oroh also disclosed the objective of GES to include encouraging the private sub-section by developing marketing channels that would ensure sales of agriculture inputs to farmers in all nooks and crannies of the country.
He said GES was designed to promote incentives for poor farmers in some focal crops, including cassava, rice, maize, plantain, cocoa, oil palm and livestock.
According to him, the cost of subsidy on GES is shared by both the federal and state governments on 25 per cent basis while the private sector makes up for the balance 50 per cent.
The 6,000 banana suckers allocated to Edo State, he said, was arrived at after a statistics of farmers in Nigeria was taken and arrived at 40 per farmer by the Nigerian Institute for Horticultural Research and Training, Ibadan.
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