December 13, (THEWILL) – The National President of the National Rice Producers, Processors, Millers and Marketers Association of Nigeria Alhaji Mustafa Ahmadu (Sarkin Noma Adamawa) has inaugurated the South East and South South Zonal Executives of the association.
The inauguration took place in Calabar and was attended by all the 11 state executives from the two regions.
Speaking while inaugurating the new executives, the national president said there must be kinetic impact on the link between value chain players.
He said the association hopes to coordinate and streamline the activities of all value chain players.
He said, “there must be a kinetic impact on the link between the value chain players from producers – Aggregators – Millers – Marketers.
“This will create specialty among the actors, make the operational structure seamless and create access to sustainable funding, structured market, fair pricing and guaranteed offtake”, he said.
He said NARPPMMAN has a lot to offer and charged the incoming executives to join hands and build the association for the benefit of all and the national economy.
Also speaking, Augustine Ijeh, National Vice President South South said agriculture has been left in the hands of peasant farmers for too long and the country has not made much progress for over four decades.
NARPPMMAN, he said is borne out of the need to coordinate the activities of rice value chain players so as to guarantee an unbroken chain in rice production.
He added that they will operate as an institution, coordinating the activities of all in the rice value chain so that they can have equal opportunity in rice funding.
Progress Udugeli, a representative of NIRSAL said they will work to facilitate finance to the sector to ensure a win-win situation.
He added that there is a lot to do but assured that NIRSAL is ready to partner with the association.
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