Date: 2019-11-15

A dialogue 'Farm2Fork' which is targeted at fashioning the modalities to usher in a prosperous era in Nigeria's agricultural sector is set to hold in Ilorin, Kwara state, with the theme; 'Eliminating the Impediments to a Prosperous Commodity Agribusiness'

The dialogue which is organised by AgroNigeria in conjunction with the Agricultural Trade Group of the National Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industries Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA), Organised Private Sector Exporters Association (OPEXA), and the Federation of Agriculture Commodity Associations of Nigeria (FACAN) will hold on Tuesday December 3 and Wednesday 4 at the Main Auditorium, Government House, Ilorin, Kwara State.

Richard Mark-Mbaram, Chief Executive Officer of AgroNigeria, an integrated agro-centric media and Communications Company and a Co-Convener of the Dialogue, while speaking in Lagos said that the platform is imperative to facilitate the needed solutions to challenges bedeviling agribusiness in the country.

He said that the talk will among other things leverage on the positive momentum generated by recent economic actions of the government with a view to ensure that the Nigerian economy and its critical stakeholders benefit there-from.

"The dialogue will hinge on the key narrative that the Nigerian private sector in agriculture is keen on fostering a Proactive Partnership for Prosperity (PPP) with the public sector. Right from local production to processing, logistics, consumption and exports, there exists cross-cutting challenges which can only be comprehensively addressed by having all stakeholders around the table.

"This is what the Farm2Fork Dialogue seeks to achieve. In essence, the dialogue is designed not only to interrogate the causative issues resulting in the current reality of agro-commodity deficits in the country, but to evolve a trajectory for short-medium and long-term solutions this premised on an inclusive template", he said.