In a bid to meet its commitment to the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) for agricultural development, the Kwara State government is set to digitise farmers’ data collection.
Mr Abdulquawiy Olododo, the Special Adviser to Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Agriculture, said this on Tuesday in Ilorin at a Joint Sector Review and Biennial Review Report on the implementation of CAADP.
The review was organised by Public Financing of Agriculture (PFA) being funded by ActionAid Nigeria, and implemented in six states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
Olododo stressed the need for data to enable the state to meet the CAADP commitment of allocating 10 per cent of its annual budget to agriculture to meet six per cent annual growth in the sector.
“For us to meet the CAADP commitment of 10 per cent of the annual budget, we have to plan and for us to plan, we need data.
“Data is the primary foundation upon which we can actualise the commitment.
“If we don’t have adequate data to plan, how do we want to make necessary provisions for what we need to do?
“Even from our agriculture transformation plan that we unveiled, the first programme is the farmers’ data bank because we know the importance of having a data bank that we can analyse and harness data from.”
According to him, from that, we can now begin to see how we can meet up with the commitment of CAADP and see how it can be achieved before 2025.
