The Nigerian Agribusiness Group (NABG) has created 16 segments within its association to drive inclusion in the country’s agricultural sector where all operators in the sector are effectively engaged, particularly, those in the rural areas.
The association made this known to BusinessDay when it held its first quarterly meeting in 2017 recently in Lagos.
“Today we established 16 segments which will be handled by each executive member to ensure all inclusive participation of all members from the rural bottom to the top,” said Sani Dangote, president Nigeria Agribusiness Group (NABG) during the executive meeting of NABG.
“This will help bring about capacity building and engagement of all stakeholders in the agric sector,” Dangote said.
NABG is a business group where all associations from rural farmers to traders, agro-industries to inputs suppliers, banks, insurances, logistics, research and development centres, youth empowerment centres, women empowerment associations, all kinds of association within the entire value chain of agriculture are under its umbrella.
Also speaking, Tony Bello, director general, said “over the past three years the association has been building the foundational blocks to grow the country’s agric sector but now it is time to take it to the grass roots and the activation of it is a success story for the organisation and the country at large.”
He noted that the 16 segments created will help facilitate grass roots involvement in the association and the agric sector.
Akin Sawyerr, secretary of NABG stated that the association is working out modalities to ensure that each of the segments is effective and efficient in impacting the sector and the country’s economic growth.
“It is a small step and we are at the very beginning today and we are still trying to work out the segments by seeing who is going to lead them, make them work and what impact it would have on the sector and the country’s economic growth,” Sawyerr said.
Josephine Okojie
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