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RSG Assures Ginger Farmers Of Partnership
The Rivers State Government has assured the National Ginger Farmers Association of Nigeria (NGAN) of its willingness to partner with the association towards actualising its dreams in ginger production.
The Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr. Emmanuel Chinda, who gave the assurance in his speech at the inauguration of Board of Trustees/Rivers State chapter of the association in Port Harcourt, said that there can not be a better time to talk about repositioning of agriculture than now.
Chinda said government will be ready to perform, if the ginger farmers are ready to partner for mass production of the products.
Chinda also urged members of the association to avail themselves of the various credit facilities made available by government like the FADAMA project and micro-credit facilities.
The agriculture commissioner cautioned that the intention of forming association or seeking for access to credit facilities should not be to share in the national cake and urged members of the association to go beyond the association level and become big time ginger farmers in a very short time.
Also in his speech, the National President of the Association, Major General Unana Num (rtd), who was represented by the association’s legal adviser, Wakili Kadila noted that ginger is a major demand in the pharmaceutical industry, and is used as food spices all over the world. He said ginger is to agricultural sector, what crude oil is to the petroleum industry, and has a high nutritional and medicinal value.
Earlier in her speech, the president of Rivers State chapter of the association, Evangelist (Mrs) Gold Ekine, described ginger as an engine room for human living, as it s useful to the kidney, and urged people to invest on it.
In his speech, the chairman of the BOT, Professor Winston Bell-Gam and one time Commissioner for Agriculture in the state said that disease control is one major problem the crop is faced with in Rivers State, and urged the association to tackle the challenge.
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