Farmers in Edo State have become beneficiaries of N2billion loan from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), guaranteed by the state government.
The loan is in consonant with one the apex bank’s Anchor Borrowers’ Programme aimed at jobs creation, reduction in food imports and diversification of Nigeria’s economy.
The state farmers who also got a N1billion grant in 2011 from the state government to buy farm implements and grow their farms, endorsed Godwin Obaseki as the successor of the state governor Comrade Adams Oshiomhole.
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