The immediate past chairman of the National Association of Rice Farmers in Adamawa, Abdullahi Tafida, has predicted that the implementation of Anchor Borrowers progamme in the state will soon collapse. He also alleged that the state government had politicised the Anchor Borrowers Programme to the extent that genuine farmers were not being captured. Responding, Umar Bindir, the Secretary to the State Government and chairman Anchor Borrowers team, said that the allegation makes it appear as if Adamawa citizens are very bad people. The chairman of rice farmers association in the state is a full member of the Anchor Borrowers committee. No fewer than 3,000 dry season rice farmers received agricultural inputs worth millions of naira for rice production.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 04, 2017 08:15 UTC