An agency funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) called Maximising Agricultural Revenue and Key Enterprises in Targeted Sites (MARKETS) said it has facilitated N20 billion as rural agricultural loans in Nigeria.

The agency added that it had mobilised Nigerian farmers to achieve N78 billion value of sales for MARKETS II commodities.

Its Director, External Relations and Capacity Building, Godson Ononiwu who spoke yesterday in Kpada, Patigi Local Government Area of Kwara State at the presentation of tractor to Anfani Kin Kpada Tifin Cooperative Farming Society Limited, said: "We are providing the tractor not only to support the cooperative society and its members in furthering their own production opportunities but also to allow them develop a commercial tractor business to service the other farmers in their communities."

The event was attended by local government chairman, Alhaji Uthman Ndako-Kpada, officials of agro-allied institutions and outfits, other dignitaries and members of the cooperative society which is chaired by Alhaji Abdul-Gana Lukpada.

Ononiwu said in Benue and Kwara states, MARKETS II had been providing agricultural and capacity building assistance to 70,139 aquaculture, rice and soybean farmers since April 2012.