China opens agricultural demonstration skills acquisition centre in FCT

The Chinese government has completed an agricultural demonstration Centre in Abuja

The demonstration Centre is to serve as a skills acquisition centre to help Nigerians produce agricultural products that would meet the international export standards.

Many factors continue to threaten agricultural production of Nigeria, ranging from criminal activities to the impact of climate change

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To this end, ensuring an enduring solution in maximising agricultural output is very important

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The centre, built by the Chinese government is expected to help Nigeria, not just in addressing food insecurity, but also in increasing foreign earnings through export of produce

The demonstration Centre’s affects all aspects of the value chain in agricultural produce from mechanisation, quality of seedlings, use of technology to information and research

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This should help in reducing export rejects of Nigerian agricultural products by foreign markets

Nigerian government officials from the Ministry of Agriculture inspected the site, and received promises from the Chinese Ambassador that the centre will be optimally administered to enable local farmers master modern agricultural production technology and will be sustainable over the years.

The over 6 million US dollar project, which started in 2013 is a grant to the Nigerian government to further strengthen the Nigerian-China relations

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