Nigeria to get new agricultural policy
THE
Federal Government Monday constituted a 14-member Policy-Working Group to
develop innovative policies and institution that would facilitate the
actualization of the Agricultural Transformation Agenda.
The Minister of Agriculture and
Rural Development, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, during the inauguration of the
Policy-Working Group in Abuja said the aim of constituting the committee was to
institutionalize agricultural policies and make sure that there are
legislations to protect the reforms embarked on by the current administration.
The committee made up of
distinguished economist, policy experts, macroeconomist, Nigerian-American
professors, were given two months to come up with the report and part of it was
to document various policy instrument and also to come up with new generation
of instrument to sustain Nigeria agricultural policy.
He said they are to conduct
impact assessment on the rural household and economy, build the capacity of
staffs of the ministry and do a general analysis of agricultural policy.
