{"id":10681,"date":"2023-11-15T04:49:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T04:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/?p=10681"},"modified":"2023-11-15T04:49:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T04:49:58","slug":"insecurity-preventing-benue-from-leading-in-rice-production-ifad-coordinator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/insecurity-preventing-benue-from-leading-in-rice-production-ifad-coordinator\/","title":{"rendered":"Insecurity preventing Benue from leading in rice production\u2013IFAD Coordinator"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"570\" src=\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Rice-seedlings-1024x570-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Rice-seedlings-1024x570-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Rice-seedlings-1024x570-1-600x334.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Rice-seedlings-1024x570-1-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Rice-seedlings-1024x570-1-768x428.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Most rice farmers in the state are living in crisis-prone areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emmanuel Igbaukum, the State Programme Coordinator of the\u00a0<strong>International Fund for Agricultural Development<\/strong>\u00a0(IFAD)-Value Chain Development Programme (VCDP) in Benue, says insecurity is hampering rice production in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Igbaukum who spoke after a visit to the state\u2019s commissioner for finance, Michael Oglegba, on Tuesday in Makurdi said insecurity had prevented Benue from taking its pride of place as the number one producer of rice in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf insecurity in the state is tackled, Benue will take the lead in the production of rice in the country. Most rice farmers in the state are living in crisis-prone areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPersistent insecurity is hampering good farming practices thereby affecting food security,\u201dMr Igbaukum said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said through IFAD-VCDP, farmers in the state were experiencing high yield, adding that the organisation adequately trained farmers on Good Agronomic Practices (GAP) which translated into high yield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Igbaukum said that through GAP farmers learnt how to properly apply fertilisers to their crops for good yield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also stated that the organisation had created several opportunities to encourage the youth to accept and embrace agriculture for the overall good of society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Responding, Mr Oglegba assured IFAD-VCDP of a sustained and robust partnership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most rice farmers in the state are living in crisis-prone areas. Emmanuel Igbaukum, the State Programme Coordinator of the\u00a0International Fund for Agricultural Development\u00a0(IFAD)-Value Chain Development Programme (VCDP) in Benue, says insecurity is hampering rice production in the state. Mr Igbaukum who spoke after a visit to the state\u2019s commissioner for finance, Michael Oglegba, on Tuesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[320,218,159],"class_list":["post-10681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-rice-production","tag-rice-farming","tag-global-rice-news"],"acf":{"enable_premium_overlay":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Insecurity preventing Benue from leading in rice production\u2013IFAD Coordinator - Rice News Today<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Insecurity preventing Benue from leading in rice production\u2013IFAD Coordinator - Rice News Today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Most rice farmers in the state are living in crisis-prone areas. 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