LCCI Advices President-elect to give greater attention to Agriculture

           The Agricultural Group of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry has appealed to the President elect, Gen. Muhammad Buhari to put agriculture in the front burner of his administration. This will boost the current efforts on food production and improve the level of food security. The group, through its Chairman, Mr. Wale Oyekoya made this known at a briefing in Lagos recently, where the president-elect was advised to review the current agricultural programmes and continue implementing those policies that are outstanding . The Chairman lamented the failure of many laudable agricultural policies which is mostly due to inadequate funding and corruption. He recalled the many policies and programmes by successive administrations and how sadly they never achieved the objective due systemic corruption and poor funding. Mr. Oyekoya listed some of the agricultural programmes such as the Agricultural Transformation Agenda, (ATA); Nigeria Incentive based Risk Sharing Agricultural Lending, (NIRSAL); Commercial Agricultural Programme, (CAP); Agricultural Credit Scheme amongst others; he said all these are devoid of effective implementation, which the President correct or improved upon.