Nigeria to benefit from N610 BN rice grant
10 March 2015
In order to attain self-suffi¬ciency in food production, Nigeria has been selected to benefit from about N610.5 billion (about $3.3 million) granted by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and the German Development Cooperation (BMZ), under the Competitive African Rice Initiative (CARI) project.
In order to attain self-suffi¬ciency in food production, Nigeria has been selected to benefit from about N610.5 billion (about $3.3 million) granted by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and the German Development Cooperation (BMZ), under the Competitive African Rice Initiative (CARI) project.
Other three African countries included in the project are Burki¬na Faso, Ghana and Tanzania .
The project, which has been scheduled to end in 2017, was designed to reach about 120,000 small-scale rice producers, as well as rural service providers and rice millers as secondary beneficiaries. The scheme, which is geared towards improving their sourc¬ing capacity of quality supply, has implementing institutions selected as grant facilitators to include GIZ, Technoserve, the John A. Kufuor (JAK) and Kili Trust (KT).
The main instrument for the implementation of CARI across the four countries on the match¬ing grant would be on the basis of Public Private Partnership (PPP).
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