Kaduna, GAIL launch YALWA initiative to develop maize, soybean value chains

L-R: Adamu Ismail, CBN; Olusola Fashedemi, Head Commercial Golden Agri Input and Project Yalwa Lead (FMN); Hajiya Halima Lawal, Commissioner of Agriculture KDSG; Hajia Abubakar CBN and Aliyu Aminu Umar, Director Agric services Kaduna Agric. Development agency (KADA), at the launch of YALWA (Abundance) - Maize and Soybean Value Chain Development Programme for farmers in Kaduna State.

The Kaduna State government and Golden Agri Inputs Ltd, a subsidiary of the Agro-Allied Division of Flour Mills of Nigeria (FMN), have launched the Maize and Soybean Value Chain Development Programme for farmers called YALWA (abundance) in the state. The YALWA program established to aggressively

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Josephine Okojie-Okeiyi

Josephine Okojie-Okeiyi is a journalist with over five years’ reporting experience. She writes on industry, agriculture, commodities, climate change, and environmental issues. She is fellow of Thomson Reuters Foundation and Bloomberg Media Initiative for Africa.