Money deposits banks in the country have given a total of N556.5 billion to farmers in the first quarter of 2017, 14.6 per cent increase from N485.6 billion it gave in the corresponding quarter of 2016, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
On a quarter on quarter basis, l
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Josephine Okojie
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