Grace Cofie
The Nigeria Entrepreneurs Forum (NEF) has come out to say that for Nigeria to effectively maximize the economic benefits of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), the Federal Government must institute measures to boost productions and exports in the agricultural sector.
This was said by the President of NEF, Sidney Inegbedion, on Wednesday at Abuja during the Leadership Training on God Corporate Governance, Market Access and Value Chain Development.
According to him, he said, “the country is blessed with abundant agricultural commodities and resources needed to boost its economic growth in the international market if effectively harnessed.”
He added that the training was part of NEF strategies of enhancing the leadership of smallholder farmers through productive corporate governance and value chain development.
The NEF President said, “the country also needed to strengthen its processing capacity for export purposes to countries, within and outside Africa that required Nigeria’s agricultural commodities.
“We realised that most of the members of these associations are in the hinterlands without little or no education but they are the people that produce what we eat and can be packaged for export, hence the need for sound leadership in line with the economic agenda of the present administration which tend to focus on agriculture.”
