Nigeria: FG to support Irish potato farmers

The Federal Government has expressed its determination to support Irish potato farmers toward increasing their productivity and modifying value chain in 2017. Chief Daniel Okafor, the National President, Potato Farmers Association of Nigeria (POFAN) said on Tuesday in Abuja. Okafor said that the Irish potato value chain programme would be launched in January 2017. He said that the Federal Government had already put POFAN into its programme and ready to distribute disease resistance seeds by January to farmers. Okafor stressed the need for the potato farmers to capture their data, including the size of their crop land, location and the number of the existing farmers. More