Farmers have joined their voices in the thread of criticism that trailed the recent offer by war-ravaged Ukrain to export 25,000 tonnes of wheat as emergency food assistance to Nigeria.

The farmers under the aegis of the Nigeria Farners Group and Cooperative Society berated the Federal Government for not doing enough to ensure food security in the country despite enjoying relative peace when compared to Ukraine which has been at war with Russia for close to two years.

The Managing Partner of the Group, Retson Tedheke, who voiced the farmers’ frustration while briefing reporters in Abuja lamented the free fall of the Naira to the dollar was as a result of the failure of federal government to adopt advanced farming technologies and invest strategically in agriculture.

According to Tedheke, the Anchor Borrower’s programme failed to yield the desired result because the billions of Naira spent on the programme was channeled to contractors instead of those in the industry who have the requisite experience.

He explained that government should have allowed the commercial banks play the role of monitoring, evaluation, and progress reporting of the programme rather than the current practice where they are pressured and over burdened to give loans to farmers.

Tedheke added that the Group is has decided to come up with a technology driven farming investment programme called agbadovision towards rescuing the nation from from an imminent food crisis should the government not take proactive steps towards tackling various challenges that could lead to food shortage.

He called on President Bola Tinubu, who he said inspired the vision with his his ‘agbado’ comment during the build up to the 2023 election, to support the programme by investing strategically into agriculture inorder to create employment, surplus food production and strengthen the Naira.

“We have learned we are people and we can utilize technology to put this land and people to good use. So today, a great day in the next one month we’re going to call all of you to the launch.

“This is a prolonged press conference in the next month, and within a month thereafter that not just 1 million, or 2 million, or 3 million or 5 million, but about $10 million is going to be on the table based on blockchain technology tokenizing NFGCS Farm Estate driving agriculture revolution for the greater good of our people, for the stability of our country, for national security, for social stability and a foundation that is impossible to be broken because food is life,” he added..

The app’s designer, Mike Onimisi, said AGBATOKEN’s will revolutionise agricultural finance through tokenization. With a current valuation of $10 million, the token seeks to overcome funding constraints, facilitate postal expansion, and incentivize sustainable agricultural practices. (The Nation)

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