Agriculture Trade Fair
(Landbouw Vakbeurs Assen) 15 - 17 January 2013
TT Hall Assen
Assen,The Netherlands
Agriculture Trade Fair is known to be the largest and the most important
show that dedicates itself in showcasing the agricultural equipments
and services. The professionals belonging to this sector will get to
exhibit advanced technology equipments which will benefit the
professionals working in this sector. The exhibitors find this show to
be the perfect platform where the respective companies can introduce
their range to the present attendees. The visitors will get to see
livestock and dairy machines, feeding and husbandry equipments, forage
equipments and lot more other products.
Agriculture Trade Fair
provides an interactive platform where the attendees can communicate
with the exhibiting professionals personally and discuss about the
recent innovations and policies added in the agricultural sector.
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The
Bank of Agriculture (BOA) has earmarked 10 billion Naira for the Youth
Agriculture Business Revolution in Nigeria (YARN). The Managing Director
of the Bank, Mohammed Santuraki, explained that plans have been
concluded for the lauching of the programme.
Santuraki spoke at the Bank’s Head Office in Kaduna, while receiving
members of the House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture.
has concluded plans to launch the Youth Agriculture Business
Revolution in Nigeria (YARN) with about 10 billion naira.
The Bank’s boss said the bank has granted a 5 billion naira loan to
small-scale farmers this year while over 2 billion naira was given as
loan to commercial farmers.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, has stressed
need to redefine the nation’s agricultural funding system and establish a
framework that would support issuance of long-term funding to the
country’s farmers.
The Minister made this promise in Abuja at a forum planned to happen
together with the annual global marking of October 16 as World Food Day.
Adesina
said, the FG had made plans for the provision of 10 million cell phones
to farmers next year, thus, the five million phones would come from the
10 million.
“First and foremost, we are going to distribute, for next year, 10 million mobile phones.
“And when I say we, actually, the Minister of Communications Technology is taking the lead in this, working with my ministry.”
“The
Minister of Finance, as you know, she is always passionate about women,
will do five million phones for women farmers so that we make sure that
they get it.”
“And those phones are not just for inputs; it is
that we want to get our rural folks to get market information, extension
information, health information, climate information; all that in local
languages on their mobile phones.’’
“Secondly we are working with
mobile phone companies to expand the number of base stations they have
in rural areas so we can reach a lot of people in the rural areas.”
“We
found that one challenge was the issue of network coverage and that is a
challenge we all face as a country; that the issue of connectivity
reception in a number of areas has to be dealt with.”
“We also
have a number of farmers that do not have phones, especially women
farmers, and I want to make sure we reach those who do not have phones
so that they could really be reached.”
