Ebonyi: FGN/IFAD-VCDP support 150 benefiting farmers in dry season farming

The Federal Government of Nigeria/ International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)-assisted Value Chain Development Programme (VCDP), is assisting 150 benefiting farmers in Ebonyi in dry season farming.

Mr Sunday Ituma, the IFAD-VCDP State Programme Coordinator, made the disclosure while flagging off the 2023/24 dry season farming at Odomowo, Inyimegu in Ikwo Local Government Area of the state.

Ituma said that the flag-off was one of the programme’s 2023 activities brought forward to 2024 and it afforded dignitaries present to see its dry season cluster at Ikwo.

“The benefiting 150 farmers are expected to cultivate 150 hectares of land.