The Nigeria Country Director of AGRA, Rufus Idris, has disclosed that over 11 million farmers have been reached with new agriculture technologies through AGRA’a agriculture extension model called Community Based Advisory. This model, according to him, has been able to close the gap between extension agents to farmers from one extension agent to 5000 farmers, adding that there are plans to further reduce it. “We have been able to promote an agriculture model that has really worked, that is the community based advisory model which is mainly a model that is private sector driven and to ensure that farmers at the last mile get access extension services. “It used to be one extension service agent to more than 5000 smallholder farmers. We have been able to close that to one extension agent to lower than 500 smallholder farmers and we are working harder to see how we can further close that gap.

Source: Nigerian Tribune November 07, 2023 09:48 UTC