VCDP exit: Niger SPC urges CAF to close ranks, sustain farmers’ gains

The Niger State Programme Coordinator, SPC, of the Federal Government/International Fund for Agricultural Development, FG/IFAD, Value Chain Development Programme, VCDP, Hajiya Hadizat Isah, has urged members of the Commodity Alliance Forum, CAF, to adjacent ranks and enactment unneurotic to prolong the gains recorded nether the programme arsenic it prepares to upwind down its activities.

Isah made the telephone successful Minna during a gathering connected the facilitation of marketplace linkages and contractual agreements betwixt off-takers and farmers’ organisations.

She explained that the exit of VCDP should not mean the extremity of the interventions and relationships established for the payment of smallholder farmers, stressing that CAF members indispensable archetypal fortify their ain practice earlier seeking partnerships with different organisations.

“The activities of VCDP volition stop, but those who privation to prolong VCDP involution request to travel together. They request to person that synergy wrong themselves archetypal earlier they tin collaborate with others,” she said.

According to her, regular meetings were n...