Following the decision of President Bola Tinubu to remove the subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit, and the unification of the foreign exchange market by the Central Bank of Nigeria, the Small Scale Women Farmers Organisation of Nigeria, has urged the Federal Government for inclusion in the palliative measures being distributed across the country.
The President of the female farmers, Mary Afan, lamented that it was no longer news that the prices of transportation, food prices, goods and services had increased.
AFAN, at a press briefing in Abuja on Tuesday, cried out that smallholder farmers had been forced to reduce the size of their farmlands due to the high cost of input and transportation.
The farmers’ association requested that the Federal Government should provide immediate palliative measures, improved seeds and farm input for dry season farming; targeted transportation subsidies to smallholders; support for climate-smart agriculture; market access enhancement; and improved agricultural funding amongst other things.
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