Anambra is one of the 24 states selected from the six geopolitical zones where the programme is being implemented. The deputy director in the agro-processing and marketing department of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Mr Macus Ogunbiyi is leading a team of experts on a week-long assessment of cooperative societies in the 12 benefiting communities in Anambra State. During their stay in Anambra, members of the team would visit all the sixty cooperative societies in the 12 communities. Anambra State commissioner for agriculture, mechanization and export, Mr Afam Mbanefo, who received the team, said the state government had adopted transparency in its dealings with the various cooperative societies, adding that the era of one family dominating a cooperative society was gone. He said that following the process which the state government had put in place, it had become easier to identify cooperative societies that meant business.

Source: Nigerian Tribune January 22, 2018 15:15 UTC