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Nigeria - Agricultural Transformation Agenda Support Program - Phase I (ATASP-I) - Appraisal Report

The Federal Government of Nigeria has launched the Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA) to attract private sector investment in agriculture, reduce post-harvest losses, add value to local agricultural produce, develop rural infrastructure and enhance access of farmers and other value chain actors to financial services and markets. The ATA sets out to create over 3.5 million jobs along the value chains of the priority agricultural commodities of rice, sorghum, cassava, horticulture, cotton, cocoa, oil palm, livestock, fisheries, etc. for Nigeria’s teeming youths and women, in particular. Th…