Why govt needs to channel agric interventions to mechanisation, by PwC
Despite being a year that witnessed increase in financial interventions to Nigeria’s farming community through the Anchor Borrowers Programme (ABP), there hasn’t been a significant focus on bridging the mechanisation gap in agricultural processes, Taiwo Oyaniran, an associate director at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), says. The country’s mechanisation rate has been stagnant around 0.3 hp/ha compared to…