Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (FMAFS) launched a NIN-backed farmer registry to link farmers to farmlands ...

The Nigerian government has launched the National Identity Number-enabled farmer registry and Government to People (G2P) card initiative to enable and facilitate intervention to crash food prices.

They explained that the farmer registry would link each farmer’s NIN to their farmland and relevant data, including crop or livestock type and farm size. The G2P card ecosystem is designed to ...

The Zimbabwe initiative falls within the ambits of a wider regional programme called the SADC [Southern African Development ...

By integrating the NIN with biometric identity data, the new farmer registry will link each farmer to their farmland and provide crucial details such as crop type, livestock, and farm size.

Sources told FE that the move to create farmers’ digital registry is part of the government’s digital agriculture mission, which would enable farmers to access benefits from a host of schemes.

According to the government authorities, the development was in tandem with the National Identity Number (NIN) enabled farmer registry and Government 2 people (G2P) card initiative. “This ...

The Nigerian government has launched the National Identity Number-enabled farmer registry and Government to People (G2P) card initiative to enable and facilitate intervention to crash food prices.