Agricultural Sector 2020 2022 MTSS

Niger State Agricultural Sector
2020 – 2022 MEDIUM-TERM SECTOR STRATEGY (MTSS)
APRIL, 2019
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Foreword
We feel highly honored and privileged to write the foreword to the sixth (3)-Year Medium Term
Sector Strategy (MTSS) rollover of the Agricultural Sector of Niger State.
The Agricultural Sector is the backbone of Niger State economy. The sector now comprises of
the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries and
Niger State Agricultural and Mechanization Development Authority (NAMDA) and its Agencies.
The former Ministry of Livestock and Fishery Development merged with Ministry of Agriculture
and Rural Development in 2016 was demerged in 2017. The Forestry department and Niger
State College of Agriculture have remained with Environment and Mineral Resources and
Education Sectors respectively. These were formally part of the Agricultural Sector.
The Sector’s MTSS was first prepared in 2013. This 2020 – 2022 MTSS is the Sixth rollover
following the first rollover in 2014 and the second in 2015. The rolled over MTSS comprises
pragmatic strategies to deliver Agricultural Sector’s mandate and to ensure optimum
satisfaction of its stakeholders through effective and efficient service delivery.
MTSS preparation is a yearly affair; meaning that this rolled over MTSS will still be subjected to
review in subsequent years. We will, therefore, welcome comments and suggestions from all
our stakeholders on ways to improve the MTSS.
We commend the efforts of everybody that has made the rollover of the MTSS possible and in
particular, all members of the Sector Planning Team (SPT). We also acknowledge with great
appreciation, the support provided by the Niger State Planning Commission and the State
Partnership for Accountability, Responsiveness and Capability (SPARC) Programme of the
United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) for building our capacity
to the extent that we are able to rollover this MTSS on our own.
However, implementation n of the previous MTSS rolled over has been a challenge.
Accordingly, the stakeholders are requested to take personal interest in making sure that this
MTSS is implemented as designed through regular Monitoring and Evaluation.
This MTSS is recommended to all interested parties as a veritable instrument for the
transformation of the Agricultural Sector in Niger State and Nigeria as a whole.
Dr. Ibrahim Garba Musa Dr. Wasa Jonathan K.

Permanent Secretary Permanent Secretary
Agriculture and Rural Development. Livestock and Fisheries.
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents ............................................................................................................................ 3
Tables .............................................................................................................................................. 4
Figures ............................................................................................................................................. 5
Annexes ........................................................................................................................................... 5
Acknowledgement .......................................................................................................................... 6
Table of Acronyms .......................................................................................................................... 7
Executive Summary....................................................................................................................... 11
Chapter One .................................................................................................................................. 12
1.1 Introduction.................................................................................................................... 12
Aims and Objectives of the Document......................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
1.2 Summary of the Process Used for the MTSS rollover .................................................... 13
1.3 Summary of Conclusions ................................................................................................ 15
1.4 Summary of the Sector’s Programmes, Outcomes and Related Expenditures ............. 17
1.5 Outline of the Structure of the Document ........................ Error! Bookmark not defined.
Chapter 2: The Agriculture Sector Policy Situation Analysis ........... Error! Bookmark not defined.
2.1 A Brief Introduction to the State .......................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
2.2 Overview of the Sector’s Institutional Structure ........................................................... 26
2.3 The Current Situation in the Sector ............................................................................... 29
2.4. Summary of Sector Performance Review ...................................................................... 31
2.5 Sector Policy ................................................................................................................... 31
2.6 Statement of the Sector’s Mission, Vision and Core Values .......................................... 34
2.7 Agricultural Sector’s Goals, Programmes and Outcomes for the 2016 – 2018 MTSS
period 37
Chapter 3: The Development of Sector Strategy .......................................................................... 47
3.1 Outline Major Strategic Challenges ............................................................................... 47
3.2 Resource Constraints ..................................................................................................... 47
3.2.1 Overview of 2015 and 2016 Budget Implementation ............................................ 48
3.2.2 Projects Scoring and Prioritization.......................................................................... 49
3.2.3 Existing Budget Commitments (Recurrent and Capital) ......................................... 50
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3.2.4 Summary of Cancelled or Shut Down Projects ....................................................... 51
3.3 Contributions from our Partners.................................................................................... 51
3.4 Programme Connections between Sector MDAs .......................................................... 52
3.5 Outline of Key Strategies ................................................................................................ 54
3.6 Justification .................................................................................................................. 100
3.7 Results Framework (RF) ............................................................................................... 100
3.8 Responsibilities and Operational Plan ......................................................................... 100
Chapter 4: Three-Year Expenditure Projections ......................................................................... 102
4.1 The Process Used to Make Expenditure Projections ................................................... 102
4.2 Outline Expenditure Projections .................................................................................. 102
Chapter 5: Monitoring and Evaluation ....................................................................................... 104
5.1 Identifying Sources of Data against the RF .................................................................. 104
5.2 Conducting Annual Sector Performance Review ......................................................... 104
5.3 Organizational Arrangements ...................................................................................... 105
References ....................................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.
Annex 1: Crop Production Figures: 2009– 2013 ......................................................................... 107
Annex 2: Strategy Standards and Evidence of MTSS Consistency with them ............................ 108
Annex 3:Organogram of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) ............. 110
Annex 4: Organogram of the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries development ....................... 111
Annex 5: Organogram of Niger State Agricultural Mechanisation and Development Authority112
Annex 6: Details of Overhead Costs – Existing and Projected .................................................... 113
Annex 7: Ongoing, Existing and New Projects Scorecard ........................................................... 115
Annex 8: Details of Projects Costing ........................................................................................... 123
Tables
Table 1: Programmes, Outcomes and Costs/Expenditures .......................................................... 18
Table 2: Comparison of 2016 – 2018 MTSS Expenditure Proposals and Indicative Budget Ceilings
....................................................................................................................................................... 21
Table 3: Main Departments of the Agricultural Sector ................................................................ 26
Table 4: Agricultural Sector Workforce by Salary Grade Level and Gender ... Error! Bookmark not
defined.
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Table 5: Director Level Staff in the Agricultural Sector by Gender............................................... 28
Table 6: Operational Definition of Agricultural Sector’s Core Values .......................................... 35
Table 7: Summary of Level of State Goals, Sector Goals, Programmes and Outcomes ............... 38
Table 8: Outcome Deliverables, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Baseline and Targets ........ 40
Table 9: Capital and Recurrent Budget Performance 2017-2018 (JanJun…………………………………46
Table 10: Personnel Cost and existing anprojected…………………………………………………………………48
Table 11: Capital Costs Commitments .......................................................................................... 50
Table 12: Personnel Costs – Existing and Projected ..................................................................... 50
Table 13: Overhead Costs – Existing and Projected (See details in Annex 6)............................... 51
Table 14: Grants and Donor Fundings .......................................................................................... 52
Table 15: Summary of Projects’ Expenditures and Output Measures ......................................... 47
Figures
Figure 1: Linking Government Policy to Annual Budget ............................................................... 12
Figure 2: Map of Niger State Showing the 25 Local Government Areas ........ Error! Bookmark not
defined.
Figure 3: High Level Organogram of the Agricultural Sector ........... Error! Bookmark not defined.
Annexes
Annex 1: Crop Production Figures: 2009– 2013 ......................................................................... 107
Annex 2: Strategy Standards and Evidence of MTSS Consistency with them ............................ 108
Annex 3: Organogram of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) ............ 110
Annex 4: Organogram of the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries development ....................... 111
Annex 5:Organogram of Niger State Agricultural Mechanisation and Development Authority 112
Annex 6:Details of Overhead Costs – Existing and Projected ..................................................... 113
Annex 7: Ongoing, Existing and New Projects Scorecard ........................................................... 115
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Acknowledgement
We thank the State Partnership for Accountability, Responsiveness and Capability (SPARC)
programme of the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) that
played critical role since the inception of the MTSS process between 2013 to 2016. They
provided financial, materials and capacity building support for which we appreciate so much. It
is based on the SPARC support that we are able to rollover this MTSS on our own.
Our profound gratitude goes to the Honorable Commissioners, Permanent Secretaries of

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and Livestock and Fisheries as well as Ag.
Managing Director of NAMDA who are in charge of the Niger State Agricultural Sector and the
House Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development for their participation and critical
contributions to the rollover of this MTSS.
The Sector Planning Team (SPT) is indebted to all those who contributed in one way or the
other to the rollover process.
We also thank Niger State Planning Commission for providing guidance and support throughout
the process of the rollover.
Finally, we thank the Niger State Government for creating the enabling environment for
Medium Term Strategic Planning in the State and for the opportunity given to the Agricultural
SPT to rollover this MTSS.
Agricultural Sector Planning Team

April 2019.
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Table of Acronyms
Acronym Definition
ABD Agricultural Business development
ACAPO Assistant Chief Agriculture Planning Officer
ACCT Account
ACVO Assistant Chief Veterinary Officer
AEHCs Agricultural Equipment Hiring Centers
AGRNM Agronomy
AGRO. PROC Agro-Processing
AGRO/F Agro-Forestry
AI Artificial Insemination
ALO Area Livestock Officer
ANI.TRC Animal Traction
APC All Progressive Congress
APO Agricultural Planning Officer
APR Annual Performance Review
APS Agricultural Production Survey
ASTCs Agricultural Services and Training Centres
ATA Agricultural Transformation Agenda
BOA Bank of Agriculture
CAHHT Chief Animal Health Husbandry Technician
CAPO Chief Agriculture Planning Officer
CBN Central Bank of Nigeria
CFS Chief Fish Superintendent
CLT Chief Laboratory Technician
CO Clerical Officer
CONHESS Consolidated Health Salary Structure
CSOs Civil Society Organisations
DAP Development Action Plan
DD Deputy Director
DDHS Deputy Director Health Services
DDP Deputy Director Planning
DDR Deputy Director Research
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Acronym Definition
DDS Deputy Director Statistics
DDVP Dimethyl Dichloro-Vinyl Phosphate
DIS Disbursement
EAs Extension Agents
ECOWAS Economic Community of West African Countries
ExCo Executive Council
FAD AGR Fadama Agronomy
FAO Food and Agricultural Organisation
FCT Federal Capital Territory
FI Fadama Infrastructure
FUA Fadama Users Association
G&SI Gender and Social Inclusion
GES Growth Enhancement Scheme
GPS Global Positioning System
Ha Hectare
HAT/NURS Hatchery and Nursery
HIV/AIDS Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
HOD Head of Department
KLFMCU Kainji Lake Fisheries Management and Conservation Unit
KOICA Korean International Cooperation Agency
KPI Key Performance Indicator
L/STK Livestock
LGAs Local Government Areas
LIBC Livestock Improvement Breeding Centre
M&E Monitoring and Evaluation
MARD Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
MLF Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries
MDA Ministry Department and Agency
MGT Management
MPS Market Price Survey
MT Metric Tonnes
MTBF Medium Term Budget Framework
MTDP Medium Term Development Plan
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Acronym Definition
MTFF Medium Term Fiscal Framework
MTSS Medium Term Sector Strategy
NAIC Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Corporation
NAMDA Niger State Agricultural and Mechanisation Development Authority
NBS National Bureau of Statistics
NEEDS National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy
NEPAD New Partnership for African Development
NFDP III+AF Third National Fadama Development Project Additional Financing
NGSG Niger State Government
NIFFRI National Institute for Freshwater Fisheries Research
NIRSAL Nigeria Incentive and Risk Sharing in Agricultural Lending
NPC National Planning Commission
NPFS National Programme for Food Security
NSADP Niger State Agricultural Development Project
NSAMIS Niger State Agricultural Management Information System
NSBS Niger State Bureau of Statistics
NSCACS Niger State Commercial Agriculture Credit Scheme
NSEEDS Niger State Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy
NSLFI Niger State Livestock and Fisheries Institute
NSPC Niger State Planning Commission
NSRIC Niger State Rice Investment Consortium
NTA National Transformation Agenda
OFAR On - Farm - Adaptive Research
PAHHT Principal Animal Health Husbandry Technician
PAO Principal Admin Officer
PICS Purdue Improved Cowpea Storage
PM&E Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation
PPO Principal Planning Officer
PPP Public Private Partnership
PPU Poultry Production Unit
PR Procurement
PRO Principal Research Officer
PRS Planning, Research and Statistics
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Acronym Definition
PSO Principal Statistic Officer
PVO Principal Veterinary Officer
PY Payroll
RAMP II Rural Access and Mobility Project II
RIPMAPP Rice Post-Harvest Processing and Marketing Pilot Project
SAHHT Senior Animal Health Husbandry Technician
SAVI State Accountability and Voice Initiative
SBS State Bureau of Statistics
SDGs Sustainable Development Goals
SEED.P Seed Processing
SLO Senior Livestock Officer
SMEs Small and Medium Scale Enterprises
SMS Short Message Service
SMTDP State Medium Term Development Plan
SO Staff Officer
SPARC State Partnership for Accountability, Responsiveness and Capability
SPO Senior Planning Officer
SPO Senior Poultry Officer
SPR Sector Performance Review
SPT Sector Planning Team
SRO Senior Research Officer
SRO Senior Rabitry Officer
SSO Senior Statistic Officer
SVO Senior Veterinary Officer
UNICEF United Nations International Children’s Fund
VCDP Value Chain Development Programme
VET.PH Veterinary Public Health
VLS Village Listing Survey
WHO World Health Organisation
ZLO Zonal Livestock Officer
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Executive Summary
The first Medium Term Sector Strategy (MTSS) prepared in 2013 by Niger State Agricultural
Sector covered the period 2014 – 2016. The subsequent rollovers were done in 2014, 2015,
2016, 2017 and 2018 for the periods of 2015-2017, 2016 – 2018, 2017 – 2019, 2018 – 2020 and
2019-2021 respectively. The objective of the rollover is to reflect policy changes, monitor and
evaluate feedback and update the expenditure proposals in line with the current realities of
resource availability to Niger state. Accordingly, this sixth Agricultural Sector’s MTSS was rolled
over to cover the period 2020 – 2022 as presented in this document. The rollover followed a
well-defined process and it was carried out by the Sector Planning Team (SPT) comprising
senior personnel and policy makers of the sector.
The revised MTSS reflects the current agriculture policy priorities of the Niger State
Government (NGSG). The MTSS sets out fully costed strategies and expenditure plan through
which the sector seeks to contribute to the attainment of the long-term poverty reduction goal
of State Government over the period 2019 – 2021 within the limits of available resources.
The MTSS comprises five strategic goals derived from Niger State’s overarching goal for the
Agricultural Sector. The goals were further broken down into 15 programmes each of which will
be delivered through the implementation of a number of projects. A realistic and measurable
Results Framework(RF) was defined in the MTSS in terms of output targets, outcomes targets
and associated key performance indicators (KPIs). The targets are what the 2020 – 2022 MTSS is
expected to achieve, and will be used for monitoring and performance evaluation in the course
of implementing the MTSS.
Table 1. Resource Requirement

Resource Requirement of the MTSS (N Million)
Expenditure Head 2020 2021 2022
Personnel 1,161 1,224 1,280
Overhead 83.64 85.3 87.01
Capital 4,263.4 5,167.8 6,558.7
Total 5,508.04 6,477.10 7,925.71
As indicated in table 1, the projected total resource requirement of the MTSS is of the order of
N5.508.04billion; N6.477.10 and N7.925.71billion for 2020, 2021 and 2022 respectively. The
total costs were within the indicative budget ceilings issued by Niger State Planning Commission
(NSPC) to the Agricultural Sector.
The Critical success factors for the implementation of the MTSS will include the extent to which
the approved budgets were released, especially for capital projects; and effectiveness of
implementing the related Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) activities.
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Chapter One
1.1 Introduction
This MTSS represents the third
tier of plans in the process of Figure 1: Linking Government Policy to Annual
planning agriculture management Budget
in Niger State. The first two tiers
are the State’s Development MDGs
Long-term poverty
NSDBP
Blueprint which has been reduction strategies of
SMTDP
prepared; and the Medium Term Niger State Government
Development Plan (MTDP). The
first two tiers of plan try to set out Fiscal
broad statements of policy and Strategy Medium-Term Revenue
Paper & Expenditure Plan
strategy to explain how long term
service improvement outcomes
are to be achieved. These are Sector Medium-Term Strategic
otherwise called high-level policy Strategies Plan of MDAs (MTSS)
documents.
The MTSS on the other hand, tries Annual

Budgets Yearly Spending Plan of
facilitate the implementation of MDAs
NSDBP and MTDP by setting out
specific projects and strategies for
Implementation Periodic Implementation
implementation over a three-year
Monitoring & Monitoring Plan &
period as well as the costs of such Reporting Reports
projects, sources of finance for
them and capacity to implement
them.
As depicted in Figure 1, MTSS represents a crucial link in the process of translating the long-
term poverty reduction strategies of NGSG as articulated in NSDBP and State Medium Term
Development Plan (SMTDP) into the spending reality of the annual budget.
The first Medium Term Sector Strategy (MTSS) prepared in 2013 by Niger State Agricultural
Sector covered the period 2014 – 2016. The subsequent rollovers were done in 2014, 2015,
2016, 2017 and 2018 for the periods of 2015-2017, 2016 – 2018, 2017 – 2019, 2018 – 2020 and
2019 – 2021 respectively. Accordingly, the sixth Agricultural Sector’s MTSS was rolled over to
cover the period 2020 – 2022 as presented in this document. The rollover followed a well-
defined process and it was carried out by the Sector Planning Team (SPT) comprising senior
personnel and policy makers of the sector.
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Aims and Objectives of the Document
The aims of the MTSS rollover, which is customarily a yearly routine, are to:
• Reflect in the revised MTSS the key policy and socio-economic changes that may have
taken place since the preceding MTSS was prepared;
• Reflect the findings of the Sector Performance Review (SPR) in the revised MTSS, in
terms of what went well, what did not go well and lessons learnt in the course of
implementing the preceding MTSS; and
• Monitor and evaluate feedback and update the expenditure proposals in the MTSS in
line with the updated resource availability of the State as indicated by the updated
Medium Term Fiscal Framework (MTFF).
Accordingly, the 2019 – 2021 MTSS has now been revised and the rollover version, covering the
period 2020 – 2022, is presented in this document. The revised MTSS incorporates the current
agricultural policy direction and priorities of the NGSG; as well as key findings and lessons
derived from the Agricultural SPR conducted in May, 2018. The rollover MTSS sets out fully
costed strategies and expenditure plan through which the Agricultural Sector seeks to
contribute to the attainment of the long-term poverty reduction goal of the NGSG over the
period 2020 – 2022 within the limits of available resources.
Specifically, this document describes the:
• Approach adopted in rolling over the 2019 – 2021 MTSS of the Agricultural Sector to
2020 – 2022;
• Results expected in the medium term by way of measurable targeted outputs and
outcomes;
• Strategies to be implemented in order to achieve the expected results; and
• Approach for monitoring the implementation and evaluating the results achieved.
As usual, the revised MTSS would form the basis of the Agricultural Sector’s 2020 budget and
would be updated in subsequent years to reflect economic and policy changes; to feed M&E
results into budget planning periodically; and to update the expenditure proposals in the MTSS.
The performance measures in the revised MTSS would drive monitoring, evaluation and
reporting of the impact of Agricultural Sector’s budget on the lives of the people of Niger State.
1.2 Summary of the Process Used for the MTSS rollover

The rollover of the Agricultural Sector MTSS followed a well-defined process targeted at
ensuring that projects and expenditure plan of the sector is focused on the current policy
priorities of NGSG to achieve best value for money while ensuring budget realism. The MTSS
rollover was carried out by the SPT, comprising the Honourable Commissioner, Permanent
Secretary, Planning, Research and Statistics (PRS) Director, key officers of the Sector and its
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Agencies, representatives of Niger State Ministry of Gender Affairs and Social Development,
and relevant Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) such as Voice of the Electorate, Nigeria Union of
Journalist, Community Aides Initiative and others supported by State Accountability and Voice
Initiative (SAVI).Other NGOs and farmer organizations such as the All Farmers Association
(AFAN) and Commodity based organizations also had inputs in the development of the sectors
strategic plan.
Key activities in the rollover of the Agricultural Sector MTSS included the following:
• Members of the SPT that prepared the preceding MTSS were sensitized on the need to
rollover the 2019 – 2021 MTSS, the objectives of the rollover and the approach to the
rollover;
• The SPT used the NSPCS M&E guide for conducting an SPR to carry out a review of the
performance of the Agricultural Sector in the past 12 months (January to December
2018); a report of the SPR was prepared and a summary of the report is presented in
Section 2.4 of this MTSS document;
• MTSS rollover guide was used by SPT to embark on the rollover of the MTSS;
• MTSS rollover kick-off meeting was held on March, 2019 for updates on the SPR review
and to agree on the MTSS rollover activities and timetable;
• The rollover exercise was carried out largely through working sessions by members of
the SPT. Key activities carried out at the working sessions were those agreed at the kick-
off meeting and they included the following:
o Revising and validating the preliminary reviews comprising: sector policy

developments and priorities review; sector situation analysis; sector performance
review; 2016, 2017 and 2018 budgets implementation review; review of existing
budget commitments; and projects scoring;
o Review and finalization of the Mission, Vision and Core Values of the sector;
o Review and finalization of sector Goals, Programmes and Outcomes;
o Review and finalization of outcomes summary table (outcomes, KPIs, baseline and
targets);
o Receiving the sector’s indicative budget ceilings from NSPC; capital budget and
recurrent ceilings were received on 26th June, 2018; both ceilings were for the MTSS
period of 2020 - 2022;
o Updating the Logframe;
o Revising and updating of the projects costing; and
o Documentation template; Fitting the projects into indicative budget ceilings.
The revised MTSS was documented using the agreed template;
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Efforts were made to ensure that this Agricultural Sector’s 2020 – 2022 rollover MTSS conforms
to SPARC’s 15 strategy standards (5 process and 10 content standards) as much as possible.
Annex 2 presents the strategy standards and evidence of the MTSS’ consistency with them.
Representatives of Niger State Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development participated
actively in the MTSS rollover working sessions. Their contributions enhanced the gender and
social inclusion property of the 2020 – 2022 MTSS. Three critical areas that were identified as
requiring special attention for women and social inclusion were:
• Disaggregation of registered farmers by Gender and Social Inclusion.

• Agricultural inputs distribution disaggregated by Gender and Social Inclusion;
• Agricultural credit facilities disaggregated by Gender and Social Inclusion; and
• Access to agricultural land disaggregated by Gender and Social Inclusion.
As in the past, efforts have been made in this rollover MTSS to give special consideration to
Gender and Social Inclusion in respect of the first three bullet points; while the issue of access
to Agricultural land is being jointly addressed by the Ministries of Agriculture and Rural
Development, Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Land, Housing and Urban
Development and Gender Affairs and Social Development.
1.3 Summary of Conclusions

Agricultural Sector is the mainstay of Niger State’s economy and the means of livelihood for
most of the rural populace. Sustained agricultural growth is, therefore, critical to increasing
food security, uplifting the living standard of the people as well as generating employment and
rapid economic growth of the State.
However, in spite of the importance of the Agricultural Sector, farming in Niger State, as in
many states of Nigeria, has for many years remained predominantly subsistence, rain-fed and
poorly mechanized. Similarly, institutional support and infrastructure have been inadequate.
This 2020 – 2022 MTSS, therefore, focuses on addressing these challenges.
In addition to ensuring food security for all Nigerlites, the strategy aims at employment
generation, wealth creation and economic development of the rural communities. Most
importantly, it is expected to reposition the Agricultural Sector as a key driver of economic
growth so as to facilitate the realization of Niger State’s visualization of agricultural reform
agenda of the administration.
Key highlights/strategic direction of the Medium Term Strategies of the Agricultural Sector
include the following:
• Irrigation practices will be encouraged and intensified so as to minimize dependence on

rain water for farming and facilitate all year round agricultural production; the State is
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also partnering with the World Bank under the FADAMA III + AF project, IFAD Value
Chain Development Programme and Agricultural Transformation Agenda Support Phase-
1 (ATASP-1) to promote dry season farming; in addition, the State is fully participating in
CBN-Anchor Borrowers’ Programme to promote irrigation farming of the three selected
crops namely, rice, cotton and sugar cane.
• The Agricultural Sector will ensure that farmers, producers, processors and marketers of
agricultural produce employ modern methods and technologies along the value chain to
enhance their productivity, commerciality and competitiveness at all levels;
• Farmers will be encouraged to adopt modern farming practices while increasing the
integration of agriculture with other relevant sectors of the Niger State economy;
hence, the Tractor Hire and Animal Traction Services are being re-vitalized to encourage
farm mechanization;
• In order to increase livestock population of quality animals, Artificial Insemination (AI)
technique has been introduced in the State from South Africa, the adoption of which
will significantly increase the population of cattle. Hybrid of other animals will also be
introduced. Other initiatives to be put in place to increase livestock production include
the establishment of grazing reserves at strategic locations; establishment of veterinary
centres; provision of drugs, vaccines and equipment for treatment of animal diseases;
and establishment of control posts to monitor livestock movements within and outside
Niger State; also the abattoirs will be upgraded to meet international standards to
ensure supply safe meat to the public.
• Greater Emphasis will give to the issue of the development of Grazing Reserves in the
State as a means of addressing the security challenges associated with pastoralism.
• The Livestock and Fishery Institute that has just been established will be well equipped
and its fish hatchery will be effectively utilized to boost fish production;
• Farmers’ access to quality and affordable agricultural inputs will be accorded priority.
• Agro-processing and marketing development will be given attention to enhance the
value addition, prices and marketing of agricultural produce in line with the Agricultural
Transformation Agenda(ATA) of the Federal Government which envisages the
promotion of agriculture along the value chain;
• Rural development will be vigorously pursued through improved electricity and potable
water supply to rural communities to stem rural-urban migration and retain manpower
in the rural areas for agriculture production;
• Buffer Stock Programme is being sustained to ensure food security and to stabilize the
prices of agricultural products to farmers through procurement of grains by the
Government and sales to the public at subsidized prices in order to cushion the effects
of high food prices to consumers;
• Establishment of Fruit Trees Nurseries is being intensified with a view to promoting
orchard farms and horticultural production across Niger State;
• Encourage the commercial production of high value industrial crops such as Cotton,
Ginger, Shea nuts, Oil palm and cashew.
• Priority will be accorded the development and prudent management of the factors of
production such as land, water, inputs and financial resources so that the cost of
production will remain within international standard and enhance competitiveness;
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• Priority will be placed on reform and streamlining of agricultural institutions that
provide services to farmers such as extension, training, On- Farm - Adaptive Research
(OFAR) and regulatory services so as to enable them serve farmers efficiently and cost
effectively. In this connection, four Farm Institutes are planned for an upgrade into
Agricultural Services and Training Centres (ASTCs) to provide hands-on training to
farmers on all aspects of agriculture during this MTSS period. The improved farming
methods arising from the training received should help to boost the yields of food and
cash crops as well as increase farm income;
• Appropriate policy, legal and regulatory frameworks will be instituted to encourage
individual farmers to shift from subsistence to market-oriented production processes;
and
• An enabling environment will be created for increased private sector investment in
Niger State Agricultural Sector for optimum realization of the agricultural
transformation objectives enshrined in NSDBP. In furtherance of this, the State
government is floating a CBN Anchor Borrowers’ Programme for farmers and investors
in agricultural activities. Moreover, Agro-based businesses are being promoted through
the establishment of processing centres that are fully equipped with grain milling
machines.
The foregoing emerged as the strategic priorities for the Niger State Agricultural Sector from
the situation analyses of the Sector that was conducted as well as the review of high level policy
documents (See Sections 2.3 and 2.5). Moreover, a structured scoring and prioritization system
was applied to the existing, ongoing and new projects of the sector and the issues itemized
above came out as priorities (See Section 3.2 and Annex 7).
1.4 Summary of the Sector’s Programmes, Outcomes and Related Expenditures

Table 2 summarises the programmes that the Agricultural Sector plans to implement in the
medium term (2020 – 2022), the outcomes of the respective programmes, and the estimated
costs or planned expenditures on the respective programmes over the 3-year period. The table
also presents a comparison of the total cost of the programmes each year with the indicative
budget ceilings issued by the NSPC for the respective years.
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Table 1: Programmes, Outcomes and Costs/Expenditures
Budgeted Expenditure (‘000)
Programme Outcome
2020 2021 2022
Increased Hectarage of
land area cultivated under
1.1Irrigation
irrigation practices for all 325,070 356,780 477,674
Development
year round agricultural
production
Increased yield and

1.2Crop
availability of food and 54,851 60,202 80,602
production
cash crops.
Increased livestock
1.3Livestock
population of quality 244,117 267,929 358,723
production
animals.
Increased fish production

1.4Fishery
and availability to 116,657 128,036 171,421
production
consumers.
Increased number of
1.5 Agricultural
farmers having access to 171,859 188,622 252,536
Financing
agricultural financing.
Minimization of post-
harvest losses,
2.1 Agro-
enhancement of farmers'
processing and
incomes, stabilization of 32,463 35,628 47,730
marketing
prices and supply of
development
agricultural products and
expansion of employment.
All year round grains

2.2 Buffer Stock availability and market 151,671 166,466 223,072
price & supply stability.
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Programme Outcome
2020 2021 2022
3.1Agricultural
Increased number of
technology
farmers adopting improved 891,227 976,217 1,277,739
generation and
agricultural technologies.
transfer
Increased agricultural
3.2Agricultural
manpower productivity,
manpower Skill 128,155 140,658 191,095
efficiency and
development
effectiveness.
Increased access to quality

3.3 Agricultural
agricultural inputs by 1,917,856 2,104,909 2,851,488
Inputs distribution
farmers.
Availability of reliable and

3.4 Agricultural
current/updated 117,567 129,035 174,310
surveys
agricultural data.
4.1 Rural feeder

roads and river Improved inter
crossings communities, inter-farms 159,129 174,610 233,831
construction and and inter-markets links.
rehabilitation
4.2 Farm
machinery and
construction Increased availability of
equipment farm machinery,
acquisition, construction equipment,
241,478 265,004 356,228
refurbishment, and rehabilitated AEHCs to
and rehabilitation reduce drudgery in
of Agricultural agricultural practices.
Equipment Hiring
Centres(AEHCs)
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Programme Outcome
2020 2021 2022
Effective and efficient

5.1Administration,
management of
Finance/Accounts,
Agricultural Sector’s 3,530 3,874 6,576
Human Resources
resources, (human,
& Training
financial and material).
5.2 Agricultural
Research & Quality policy planning,
Consultancy; research and management 476,512 522,787 701,902
Planning Research decision making.
& Statistics (PRS)
Total Programmes Cost (N’000) 5,308,694 5,809,218 7,662,292
Indicative Capital Budget Ceiling (N’000) 5,308,694 5,809,218 7,662,292
Indicative Capital Budget Ceiling less Total

0 0 0
Programmes Cost (N’000)
Source: Sector Planning Team’s analyses
NSPC issued the indicative budget ceilings for the rollover of the MTSS. It issued capital budget
ceilings for all Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) for the period 2020 – 2022 on 26th
June 2018 and directed that the personnel be increased by 6%, 7% and 3% to generate for
2020, 2021 and 2022 and 2% increased overhead costs across the year using 2018 approved
budget as the base for projections. Details of the indicative budget ceilings issued to the
Agricultural Sector are presented in Table 2.
Table 3 also presents a comparison of the MTSS expenditure proposals (personnel, overhead
and capital) with the indicative budget ceilings for the respective years of 2020 – 2022. The
table indicates that the MTSS expenditure proposals by all the constituent MDAs of the
Agricultural Sector [Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), Ministry of
Livestock and Fisheries and NAMDA] were within the indicative budget ceilings issued to them
by NSPC.
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Table 2: Comparison of 2020 – 2022 MTSS Expenditure Proposals and Indicative Budget
Ceilings
Item Personnel (N'million) Overhead (N'million) Capital (N'million)
2020 2021 2022 2020 2021 2022 2020 2021 2022
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD)
Indicative
504 529 555 65 67 68 3,988 4,375 5,867
Ceiling
MTSS
504 529 555 65 67 68 4,224 4,710 6,225
Proposal
Ceiling
Less
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MTSS
Proposal
Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries
Indicative
504 529 555 65 67 68 3,988 4,375 5,867
Ceiling
MTSS
504 529 555 65 67 68 3,988 4,375 5,867
Proposal
Ceiling
Less
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MTSS
Proposal
Niger State Agricultural and Mechanization Development Authority (NAMDA)
Indicative
577 617 636 15.3 15.6 15.9 1,043 1,145 1,537
Ceiling
MTSS
577 617 636 15.3 15.6 15.9 1,043 1,145 1,537
Proposal
Ceiling
Less
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MTSS
Proposal
Agricultural Sector
Indicative
1585 1675 1746 145.3 149.6 151.9 9019 9895 13271
Ceiling
MTSS
1585 1675 1746 145.3 149.6 151.9 9255 10230 13629
Proposal
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Ceiling
Less
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MTSS
Proposal
Source: Indicative budget ceilings data are as issued by NSPC; MTSS rollover (2018- 2020)
expenditure proposals are as per projections.
1.5 Outline of the Structure of the Document

This MTSS document is structured in five chapters. The respective chapters address different
subject matters but they jointly provide a complete and coherent story regarding the strategies
to be adopted by the Agricultural Sector of Niger State over the medium term of 2020 - 2022.
Chapter 1 is introduction. It sets out the aims and objectives of the document; provides a brief
description of the process used for rolling over the Agriculture MTSS; summarises the key
highlights/strategic direction of the medium term strategies of the Agricultural Sector; and
provides a summary of the sector’s programmes, outcomes and related expenditures.
Chapter 2 describes the Agricultural Sector and the policy environment in Niger State.
Following a brief introduction to the state, the chapter describes the Agricultural Sector’s
institutional structure including an assessment of the adequacy of the organisation structure for
delivering the mandate and outcomes of the sector. The chapter then presents a summary of
the results of the SPR that was conducted in the course of this MTSS rollover; examines the
current situation in the Agricultural Sector; and summarises the key findings from the review of
high level policy documents. The sector’s mission, vision and core values were presented;
followed by the sectors goals and programmes for the MTSS period.
Chapter 3 describes the development of the sector strategies for the medium term. It begins
with an outline of the major strategic challenges facing the sector and which will be the object
of strategy development. It goes on to report the results of the review of budget commitments
(personnel, overhead and capital) and the amount available for capital projects from the
indicative budget ceilings after deducting the budget commitments. The contributions of
Development Partners involved in the sector were summarized; followed by presentation of an
outline of key strategies that the Agricultural Sector plans to implement over the medium term;
including the justifications for the strategies and responsibilities for implementation.
Chapter 4 describes the process adopted in projecting the expenditure over the three-year
horizon of the MTSS. The chapter is essentially about the costing of projects, including the key
assumptions underlying the costing.
Chapter 5 provides framework for monitoring the implementation of the MTSS and for
evaluating the results achieved vis-à-vis the targets set in the MTSS. Sources of data for
measuring the results obtained were highlighted as well as the approach to conducting annual
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sector review. The chapter concludes with an outline of the responsibilities for various
components of monitoring work; including data collection, data analyses and reporting.
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Chapter 2: The Agriculture Sector Policy Situation Analysis
2.1 A Brief Introduction to the State
Figure 2: Map of Niger State Showing the 25 Local Government Areas
Niger State, one of

the 36 States of
Nigeria was 43
years old in 2019,
having been created
on 3 February,
1976. The State
comprises 25 Local
Government Areas
(LGAs). The LGAs
are grouped into
three administrative
zones: A, B and C
with the Zones
having 8, 9 and 8
Local Government
Areas respectively.
Each LGA is
subdivided into districts and the districts are further subdivided into 274 wards and villages.
Niger State is one of the largest States in Nigeria in terms of land area. The State covers about
86,000km2 (or about 8.6million hectares) representing about 9.3% of the total land Area of the
Country and the largest state in Nigeria [See Niger State Vision 3:2020 P.1, National Bureau of
Statistics (NBS), Annual Abstract of Statistics, 2009 Table 1 P.4]. The State is generously
endowed with big rivers, the major ones of which include Rivers Niger, Kaduna, Gbako, Gurara,
Ebba, Ega and Mariga.
According to 2006 census, Niger State population was 3,950,249; comprising 2,032,725 males
and 1,917,524 females1. These figures meant that males represented 51.5% of the state’s
population while female represented 48.5%. As against the national population growth rate of
3.2% per annum, it is estimated that Niger State population has been growing at 3.4% annually.
At that growth rate, Niger State population was about 5,908,197 in 2018.
Agriculture is the mainstay of Niger State’s economy and major economic activities comprise
farming, fishing and cattle rearing. Other economic activities (though limited in scale) include
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2006 Census.
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banking, trading, transportation, local arts and crafts. These activities constitute the main
means of livelihood of the people of Niger State in addition to public service engagement.
Niger State is also blessed with a lot of natural resources (solid minerals, vast arable land which
is good for agriculture, good weather condition as well as surface and ground water supplies).
Mineral resources available in the state include: Gold, Talc, Kaolin, Graphite, Ball Clay, Feldspar,
Marble, Dolomite, Manganese, Mica, Lead and copper, Quartzite, Asbestos & Iron, Silica Sand,
and Granite. However, little or no effort has been made to explore these abundant resources to
date.
The State’s water resources are vast, supporting the three existing hydroelectric power stations
in Kainji, Shiroro and Jebba; as well as the ongoing Zungeru hydroelectric power station. In
addition to electricity generation, the hydroelectric power stations also support and offer
increased prospects and opportunities for irrigated Agriculture, Animal husbandry and fishing.
The human resources of the State are equally great. The economically active population is
about 65% of the population while the State Government is directing efforts at youth
empowerment through skills acquisition and improvement in general health. The current
human resources of the state offers great opportunities for agriculture based industrialization
and private sector development.
Niger State is peaceful, with reputation for hospitality and good neighborliness. Due to rapid
urbanization and migration, the State Government has put in place measures to address the
challenges associated with cities and urban centres. In addition, the State Government has in
place adequate security to ensure safety of its citizens, investors and other stakeholders in
ensuring that the state achieves its developmental goals.
Opportunities abound in Niger State for domestic and foreign investors. The state is endowed
with an Agricultural Sector with world class potentials. The State has comparative advantage in
the production of rice, sorghum and yam with the capacity to feed the whole of Nigeria and for
export. Other features that make Niger State an attractive destination for domestic and foreign
investors include the following:
• Expansive arable land for mechanized farming;

• Conducive environment for the rearing and management of livestock;
• Large deposit of abundant solid mineral resources that are yet to be exploited;
• Large expanse of wetland well suited for large scale irrigated agriculture;
• Expansive forest resources;
• Amenable and liberal tax system suitable for the growth of Small and Medium Scale
Enterprises (SMEs) and informal sector enterprises;
• Proximity to Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT);
• Good electricity supply and electrification of the urban and rural areas; and
• Good road network, international airport, railways and river port.
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The overall development strategy of Niger State is to use its agricultural endowments to attain
equity and social inclusiveness, reduction in poverty and unemployment among women and
youth, improved quality of life for Nigerlites wherever they may be, reduced environmental
vulnerability and disaster risk reduction, improved maternal and child health, as well as
enterprise development for increased IGR as enshrined in Niger State Development Blueprint
2015- 2019.
The agro-based industrialization strategy implies that agriculture and its allied industries will
continue to form the pivot of the state's developmental efforts; meaning that most of the other
sectors, policies and strategies will revolve around the promotion of agriculture. In order to
optimize the potentials of the Agricultural Sector, the NGSG has initiated several
transformational programmes which are summarized in Section 1.3 of this MTSS document.
2.2 Overview of the Sector’s Institutional Structure

The Agricultural Sector is structured in a way to effectively discharge its mandate. The Sector
comprises two Ministries and one Agency. The Ministry is Agriculture & Rural Development;
Livestock and Fisheries while the Agency is NAMDA.
Specifically, the Agricultural Sector is structured into three main compartments as follows:
a) The Executive – Comprising the offices of the Honourable Commissioner and Permanent
Secretary.
b) The Departments – the sector has eleven main departments (from the two ministries);
comprising two general services departments and nine technical departments four for
Agric. And Rural Development and Five for Fisheries and Animal Health); each of the
departments is headed by a Director.
c) The Agency
NAMDA is headed by a Managing Director who reports to the Permanent Secretary,
MARD. NAMDA has seven main departments; comprising three general services
departments and four technical departments. Each of the seven departments is headed
by a Director. NAMDA also has four programmes that are headed by Programme
Coordinators.
Table 4 lists out the main departments of the four constituent MDAs of the Agricultural Sector,
showing the general services and technical departments of the respective MDAs. Detailed
organizational structures of the Ministry and NAMDA are presented in Annexes 3 – 5.
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Table 3: Main Departments of the Agricultural Sector
Main Departments of MARD
General Services Departments Technical Departments
Planning Research and Statistics Agriculture Services and Linkages
Personnel Management Engineering Services
Produce and Pest Control
Rural Development
Main Departments of MLF
Planning Research and Statistics Veterinary Services
Personnel Management Animal Production
Grazing Reserves and Range Management
Public Health and Epidemiology
Fisheries
Main Departments of NAMDA
Planning, Monitoring &
Extension Services
Evaluation
Finance and Accounts Engineering Services
Administration and Service
Rural Enterprises Development
Matters
Research Services
Programmes
Rural Access and Mobility Project II(RAMP II) State Implementation Office
National Programme for Food Security (NPFS)
Niger State Fadama III+AF Co-ordination Office
Value Chain Development Programme
Agricultural Transformation Agenda Support Program Phase- I (ATASP-I)
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Table 4: Agricultural Sector Workforce by Salary Grade Level and Gender
Salary MARD ML&F NAMDA MDAs Total % Distribution
Grade
Level Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female Male/Female Male Female
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 2 0 2 0 13 0 21 0 24 100 0
4 24 0 11 0 125 0 227 1 312 99 1
5 2 0 5 0 12 1 25 4 38 89 11
6 14 3 9 3 28 - 66 7 86 91 9
7 18 1 10 9 61 3 125 18 156 88 12
8 27 7 17 7 35 12 62 22 81 73 27
9 5 4 20 7 41 14 117 38 215 82 12
10 29 6 16 5 89 18 117 21 101 79 21
11 0 0 3 0 6 - 8 1 9 88 12
12 6 7 16 5 71 19 91 14 147 90 10
13 12 4 19 10 95 17 134 33 139 76 24
14 33 13 17 1 147 36 187 48 215 77 23
15 3 1 9 1 6 3 22 2 27 92 8
16 2 1 10 1 7 0 14 1 9 88 12
17 3 0 3 0 5 0 11 0 12 100 0
SG 2 0 2 0 1 0 3 0 3 100 0
Total 182 47 173 49 743 123 1364 210 1,574 86 14
Source: Workforce data supplied by the Agricultural Sector and analysed by the SPT
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Table 5: Director Level Staff in the Agricultural Sector by Gender
Director Assistant Director MDAs Total % Distribution
Male/Female
MDA Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female
MARD 3 0 5 2 8 2 10 80 20
MLF 3 0 19 2 22 2 24 91.7 8.3
NAMDA 7 0 10 4 17 4 21 80.9 19.1
Total 13 0 39 7 52 7 59 88.2 11.8
Source: Workforce data supplied by the Agricultural Sector and analysed by the SPT
Key:
MARD = Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
MLF= Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries
NAMDA = Niger State Agricultural and Mechanization Development Authority
Tables 4 presents the current staff complements of the Agricultural Sector by MDAs, by salary
grade level and by gender; while Table 5 presents the Directorate level members of staff of the
Sector by MDA and by Gender. It is clear from the data in both tables that women have not
been prominently represented in the Niger State Agricultural Sector’s staffing and top level
management. For instance, of the total Sector’s workforce of 1,574, only 14% are women (See
Table 4). Moreover, out of the total of 33 members of staff that are in the Directorate grade,
only 7% are women (See Table 5). The low percentage of women employee recorded in
Agricultural Sector may not be unconnected with women apathy in choosing agriculture as a
profession in the past. In order to redress such an anomaly, it is planned that gender sensitivity
will be promoted as a core value of the Agricultural Sector during the medium term of 2018 –
2020 (See Section 2.6, Table6).
2.3 The Current Situation in the Sector

Niger State is naturally endowed with resources that are congenial to commercial agricultural
activities both at small- and large-scale levels. The state has expansive arable land; estimated at
about 68,925km2 (or about 6.9 million hectares). The State is also blessed with fertile soil,
typical of the savannah vegetation which has been categorized among the best globally with
high potential for rain-fed and irrigated farming as well as for grazing opportunities.
The abundant fertile soil with appreciable rainfall provides opportunity for diverse crop
production which cuts across major crops that constitute Nigeria’s staple foods and cash crops
including rice, sorghum, maize, millet, groundnuts, cowpeas, soybeans, benniseed, cotton, yam,
cassava, sweet potatoes, sugarcane, melon, vegetables of all kinds, sheanuts, locust bean and
oil-palm. For instance, over the years, the annual production of the major Fadama crops (e.g.
rice, maize, sugarcane and assorted vegetable) is estimated to be more than 200,000 metric
tons, while those of cassava; yam and potatoes are 548,299, 3,520,666 and 112,324metric tons
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per annum respectively. Annex 1 presents 5-year production history of various crops in Niger
State during 2008 – 2013.
A similar trend is observable in respect of livestock production. For instance, Development

Action Plan (DAP) (2008) puts livestock population in 1990 at 1.54million cattle, 0.95million
sheep, 1.59million goats and 0.21 million other animals (including camel and pigs). The poultry
population was about 5.78million during the same period; comprising chicken, guinea-fowl,
turkey, duck and doves.
In spite of the volume of crop and livestock production, however, they are far below their
potentials and are mostly dominated by small scale activities. The potential for large scale
commercial farming remain underexploited. In order to maximize the potential of the
Agricultural Sector, the Government of Niger State has initiated several transformational
programmes which the Sector plans to continue during the MTSS period of 2020 – 2022. Key
highlights of the medium term strategies of the Agricultural Sector are summarized in Section
1.3.
The Agricultural Sector in Niger State faces a number of challenges requiring urgent attention
from stakeholders. The key challenges confronting crop production include the following:
• Low productivity of major crops e.g. the current yields of sorghum, maize and yam are
2.7mt, 3.6mt and 30.9mt per hectare respectively as against the standards yields of 5mt,
5mt and 70mt per hectare respectively.;
• Low level of mechanization in Agricultural production; the current level is less than 1hp
per hectare as against the standard of 3hp per hectare;
• Low adoption of improved/new agricultural technologies by farmers arising from
inadequate technical support services due to inadequate extension workers /logistics
and low access to credit facilities by farmers. Presently, extension agent/ farmer ratio in
the state is 1:3000as against 1:800 national standards;
• Underutilization of available natural resources; out of about 7million hectares of
cultivable land in the state, only about 2.3million hectares or 33% are currently
cultivated for production of various crops;
• Inadequate and low release of budgetary allocation to the Agricultural Sector;
• Inadequate and poor infrastructural facilities such as rural roads and stock routes;
• Underdeveloped markets and value addition, leading to low prices agricultural produce;
• Climate change results in flooding and drought both of which are disruptive to
Agricultural activities.
• Limited usage constrained by high cost and low purchasing power of the farmers of the
basic agricultural inputs such as improved seeds, seedlings and fertilizers.
• Poor storage and processing facilities, responsible for high post-harvest losses. The
problem is further compounded by inefficient marketing system and lack of small scale
processing plants for surplus perishable farm produce;
• Low all-year-round farming in the State due to non-functional irrigation facilities and
equipment. Only 25% of the potential Fadama land in Niger State has been developed;
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• Inability of small scale farmers to access agricultural credit facilities of Bank of
Agriculture (BOA) and commercial banks; and
• Due to non-modernisation of farming practices and inadequate availability of basic
social infrastructure in the rural areas, farming still remains unattractive to youth
thereby leading to rural-urban migration; hence farming activities are generally
undertaken by aged people posing problem of succession.
2.4. Summary of Sector Performance Review

MTSS was developed for Niger State Agricultural Sector for the first time in 2013 covering the
period 2014 – 2016.The MTSS was first rollover in 2014 (2015-2017) and the second rollover in
2015 for the period 2016-2018. After about 12 months of the implementation of the third
rollover budget/MTSS, three other roll overs were carried out for 2017-2020, 2018-2020 and
2019-2021. it was thought necessary to assess the performance of the sector regarding the
extent to which the results in the MTSS have been achieved. Hence, a sector performance
review was carried out in June 2018.
The performance review indicated that some achievements were recorded in 2017. Details of
these are contained in the sector performance review report. Some major challenges identified
from budget implementation include:
• The budgeted funds were not released as at when due. This was attributed to the
bureaucratic activities.
• Data gap on production might also be responsible for the apparent shortfalls between
targets and achievements;
• Some of the targets set seemed to be unrealistic hence the need to review such targets.
• Livestock census last conducted in 1991 made it difficult to determine the current actual
production figures.
A major lesson derived from the review of the sector performance was the need to hinge the
baseline and target determination on quality data. Many of the baselines in the preceding MTSS
turned out to be unreliable while the targets derived from them were generally unrealistic.
2.5 Sector Policy

A number of high-level policy documents were reviewed to set the tone and direction for the
2020 – 2022. Agricultural Sector MTSS. Specifically, the review provided the bases for the
following elements of the MTSS:
• Goals, programmes and outcomes determination;

• Strategies (i.e. projects and initiatives) development to achieve the specified goals and
outcomes;
• Outputs and outcomes determination and target setting to facilitate monitoring and
evaluation; and
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• Development of Key Performance Indicators (KPI) of outputs and outcomes.
Accordingly, the following high-level policy documents were reviewed; with emphasis on the
sections of the respective documents that dealt with the Agricultural Sector. The high level
policy documents and their specific pages that were reviewed were as follows:
• Niger State Vision 3:2020 pages 42 – 53;

• Niger State Medium Term Development Plan (2015 – 2019), draft;
• Niger State Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (NSEEDS) – pages 23
and 31;
• Niger State Development Action Plan (2007 – 2011) – Chapter 4, pages 29 – 41;
• Nigerian Vision 20:2020 – National Implementation Plan vol. II, Chapter 6, pages 52 – 71;
• National Transformation Agenda (2011 – 2015) – Chapter 5, page 14;
• National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (NEEDS) – pages 26 and
32;
• New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) – Section 3, page 33; and
• Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs);
• Validated Niger State Agricultural Policy Document;
• Niger State Development Blue Print 2015-2019 – page 9
The foregoing policy documents were reviewed to extract relevant strategic issues, policy
thrust, high-level strategies, performance indicators and targets that would form the basis of
the Agricultural Sector MTSS for the period 2020 – 2022. Specifically, the review of the policy
documents guided the development of the strategic goals, programmes, strategies,
performance indicators, outputs, targets, and outcomes of the Agricultural Sector for the
period. The rest of this section presents the highlights of the findings from the high level policy
documents reviewed.
The policy thrust of the Agricultural Sector of Niger State Development Blueprint (p. 9), is to
achieve self-sufficiency in food production and employment generation. According to Niger
State Vision 3:2020 (P. 9), the policy thrust of the Agricultural Sector is to take advantage of the
diverse agricultural resources of the state to develop an Agricultural Sector that will guarantee
food security, reduction of rural poverty and accelerated economic development of the state.
The Sector shall be private sector driven, while the Government will create an enabling
environment for public private partnerships. Essentially, the policy thrust is to promote
agricultural transformation through productivity enhancement and commercialization of
agricultural activities covering crop, fish and livestock production.
The seventeen SDGs were reviewed out of which eight are relevant to the Agricultural Sector.
They are Goals 1, 2 5, 6, 8, 13, 14 and 15 which deals with End of poverty and hunger, achieve
food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture; Achieve gender
equality and empower all women and girls; ensure availability and sustainable management of
water and sanitation for all; promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full
and productive employment and decent work for all; take urgent action to combat climate
change and its impacts; conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for
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sustainable development; protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial
ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land
degradation and halt biodiversity loss.
The 2020 – 2022 MTSS of Niger State’s Agricultural Sector aspires to contribute maximally to
the achievement of the eight Goals of the SDGs. If the State level goal under this sector is
implemented as planned, the associated outcomes would have perceptible impact on achieving
the eight SDGs enumerated above in Niger State.
Key strategies for realizing the above named policy thrust as articulated in the high level policy
documents reviewed2include the following:
• Expansion of agricultural extension workers qualitatively and quantitatively to boost

crops, animal and fish production along the value chain and exposing them to emerging
good practices and research findings
• Expanding the coverage of farm mechanization services through the provision of more
tractors
• Increasing the access of farmers to critical inputs (e.g. fertilizer, high-yielding seeds /
seedlings, vaccines and fishing gears, tractors);
• Promoting irrigated farming;
• Establishing of cash crops and fruit trees plantations, Like Shea Tree, Cashew and Ginger
• Development of grazing reserves
• Improved access to land
• Revamping existing farm institutes for youth empowerment
• Production of a master plan and cadastral land mapping for agricultural development
• Establishing agricultural products conditioning centres for export.
• Improving the access of farmers to agricultural credit and financing and market out
through:
o Collaboration with Off-takers, Input Suppliers, development Banks such as Bank

of Industry, Bank of Agriculture (BOA) and other Financial Institution to expand
credit to farmers’ Cooperatives through the CBN Anchor Borrowers’ Programme.
o facilitating access to existing Agricultural Credit Guarantee Scheme Fund e.g.
Nigeria Incentive and Risk Sharing in Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL);
o facilitating access to Economic Community of West African Countries (ECOWAS)
Fisheries Funding Scheme;
o regular payment of State counterpart funds for donor assisted projects;
o facilitating access to NSCACS;
o Nigeria Agricultural Insurance Corporation (NAIC) to take care of financial/
investment risk in agriculture.
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(e.g. See NEPAD section 3 page 33; Nigerian Vision 20:2020, National Implementation Plan vol. II, Chapter 6, pages
52 – 71; National Transformation Agenda 2011 – 2015, chapter 5, page 14; NEEDS, pages 26 and 32; Niger State
Vision 3:2020, part 2, pages 42 – 53; Niger State Medium Term Development Plan 2013 – 2015 ; NSEEDS pages 23
and 31; and Niger State Development Action Plan 2007 – 2011,chapter 4, pages 29 – 41).
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o Participation in the CBN Anchor Borrowers Programme
o Participation in the Accelerated Agricultural Development Porgramme (AADS).
The foregoing State Government strategies will be erected firmly on PPP arrangement to
facilitate the actualisation of the policy thrust.
The Agricultural Sector’s Mission, Vision and Core Values articulated in Section 2.6 of this
revised MTSS document derived from a review of various documents of the entities making up
the Agricultural Sector.
The various high level documents reviewed articulated a number of strategic issues and/or
challenges concerning the Agricultural Sector in Niger State of which were summarised in
Section 2.3 of this MTSS document.
2.6 Statement of the Sector’s Mission, Vision and Core Values

The mission and vision statements set out below were adapted from the various versions found
in the policy documents of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and NSDBP as
well as the Vision 3:2020 document of Niger State3.
Mission Statement
To create an enabling environment for agricultural production in Niger State through provision
of accessible, timely and cost effective agro-inputs and supports as well as guaranteeing
minimum prices for farm outputs with a view to ensuring food security on a sustainable basis
and improving the economic well-being of the population.
Vision Statement
To be the engine of growth and transformation of Niger State’s economy and a critical
facilitator of the achievement of the State’s vision of being one of the three most developed
state economies in Nigeria by year 2020.
Core Values
We have identified here a set of four core values which represent core behavioral traits by
which we expect members of the Agricultural Sector of Niger State to operate. The core values
are beliefs which we hold in common and Endeavour to put into practice; and they depict the
priorities on how we will deliver services to our stakeholders. The core values which will
constantly guide members of the Niger State Agricultural Sector in performing their work and in
relating to their stakeholders are as follows:
• Integrity;
• Team work;
• Professionalism; and
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Relevant references are as follows: Niger State V: 3:20:20, Visions for MARD and MLFD.
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• Gender sensitivity and Social Inclusion (G&SI).
The core values have been operationally defined as in Table 6 in order to facilitate the
monitoring of compliance with them by members of the Agricultural Sector of Niger State. The
operational definition entails specifying the core values, what the respective core values mean,
specifying examples of behavioral traits pertinent to the respective core values and strategy
implications of each of the core values.
Table 6: Operational Definition of Agricultural Sector’s Core Values
Examples of
Core Value Definition4 Strategy Implications
Behaviour
Integrity Steadfast adherence to • Frankness in a • Leadership to lead
a strict moral or ethical constructive manner by example.
code whereby all in dealing with
• Institute best
actions are consistent others.
management
with ethical principles
• Honesty in all practices and
such as sincerity,
dealings with systems in the
honesty and
everyone. Agricultural Sector
impartiality.
(financial, Human
• Doing what you say
Resource (HR),
The quality of being and saying what you
facilities) to facilitate
honest, sincere, mean and feel.
the demonstration
impartial and strong • Transparency and of integrity.
about what you believe openness.
to be right. • Demonstrae zero
tolerance to lapses
As an organisation that relating to lack of
is critically dependent integrity on the part
on taxpayers’ money, of any member of
integrity is essential in staff through
the management of the appropriate use of
resources entrusted to rewards and
us. sanctions in relation
to integrity.
• Open door policy to
encourage openness
and transparency.
Teamwork The act of a group of • Collaboration and • Promote teamwork
people working cooperation. in the Agricultural
effectively and Sector through
• Spontaneous sharing
efficiently together appropriate
4
Most of the definitions here were culled from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third
Edition, 1992.
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Examples of
Behaviour
towards a common goal of information and application of a
through collaboration, best practices. reward and sanction
information sharing and system.
• Productive
productive interactions.
interaction of • Entrench teamwork
members of a team as part of the staff
Teamwork promotes
to achieve common code of conduct
synergy which
end. booklet.
enhances productivity.
• Interconnectedness. • Open door policy to
encourage
• Interdependence.
information sharing.
• Mutual respect.
• Encouraging group
tasks as against
individual tasks.
Professionalism Exhibiting expertise, • Skillfulness, • Capacity building
quality and professional competence and and effective
ethics in the discharge proficiency. training.
of assigned duties.
• Attention to details • Provision of relevant
in all dealings. and quality working
tools as well as
• Constant strive for
conducive work
optimum
environment.
effectiveness and
efficiency. • Effective manpower
deployment (i.e.
• Quality service
allocating
delivery.
appropriate
personnel to jobs).
• Effectively applying a
results-based
performance
evaluation system.
Gender Ensuring Gender and • Accountability to all • Explicitly publicize
Sensitivity and Social Equity and constituent parts of that Niger State
Social Inclusion Inclusiveness (i.e. being Niger State’s Agricultural Sector is
fair to women, men and population. an equal opportunity
vulnerable groups organisation and act
• Ensuring equity and
according to their accordingly always.
equality in the
respective needs); and
treatment of men, • Avoid discrimination
Gender Equality (i.e.
women and in service delivery to
equally valuing the
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Examples of
Behaviour
similarities and vulnerable groups in men, women and
differences of men, service delivery in vulnerable groups.
women and vulnerable the Agricultural
groups and the roles Sector.
they play as partners in
their homes,
communities and
societies).
Practical demonstration
of gender equity and
equality manifests
inequality under the
law, equal opportunity
and equal access to
human, financial and
other productive
resources.
2.7 Agricultural Sector’s Goals, Programmes and Outcomes for the 2020 – 2022
MTSS period
The overarching goal of NGSG’s agricultural policy is set out in Niger State Development
Blueprint 2015-2019 (P 9), Vision 3:2020 document (PP. 9 & 46) and in the Niger State
Development Plan 2015 – 2019 (PP. 28 and 29) and the Agricultural Development Blueprint in
the APC manifesto PP15-17). The overarching goal is reproduced in column 1 of Table 7. Based
on the overarching goal, the Agricultural Sector has developed 5 sector goals which it plans to
pursue over the medium term 2020 – 2022. The 5 sector goals were broken down into 15
programmes while the expected outcomes of the respective programmes had been specified.
The outcomes represent the deliverables from implementing the various projects under the
respective programmes.
Table 7 presents the state level overarching goal for Agricultural Sector, the 5 sector level goals,
the 15 programmes and their associated outcomes.
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Table 7: Summary of Level of State Goals, Sector Goals, Programmes and Outcomes
State Goal Sector Goal Programme Outcome
Accelerated 1. Achieve food 1.1 Irrigation 1.1 Increased
agricultural security and development Hectarage of land
modernization for increase area cultivated under
increased productivity current irrigation practices for
in a diverse range of production all year-round
products in order to levels of all agricultural
attain food security, agricultural production
self-sufficiency, products. 1.2 Crop production 1.2 Increased yield
employment and and availability of
sustainable income food and cash crops
generation in the 1.3 Livestock 1.3 Increased
state and the country production livestock population
at large (Source: of quality animals
MTDP Niger State 1.4 Fishery 1.4 Increased fish
2015- 2019) production production and
availability to
Overarching goal of consumers
the Agricultural 1.5 Agricultural 1.5 Increased number
Sector as articulated financing of farmers having
in Vision 3:2020 is as access to agricultural
follows: financing
2. Improve post- 2.1 Agro-processing 2.1 Minimization of
To take advantage of production and marketing post- harvest losses,
the diverse management development enhancement of
agricultural resources and promote farmers' incomes,
of the State to value addition stabilization of prices
develop an of high value of agricultural
Agricultural Sector crops through products and
that guarantees food private sector expansion of
security, reduction of participation employment
rural poverty, in agro- 2.2 Buffer Stock 2.2 All year round
facilitate Agro- processing grains availability and
Industrial growth activities so as market price stability
towards accelerated to expand
economic employment,
development of the minimize post-
State by the year harvest losses,
2020. The sector shall enhance
be private sector farmers'
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driven, however, with incomes and
government creating stabilize prices
an enabling of agricultural
environment through products.
Public Private 3. Improve the 3.1 Agricultural 3.1 Increased number
Partnership (PPP). effectiveness and technology of farmers adopting
(Niger State Vision efficiency of generation and improved Agricultural
3:202 PP. 9 and 46) Agricultural Extension transfer technologies
service delivery 3.2 Agricultural 3.2 Increased
system. manpower skill agricultural
development manpower
productivity,
efficiency and
effectiveness
3.3 Agricultural 3.3 Increased access
inputs distribution to quality agricultural
inputs by farmers
3.4 Agricultural 3.4 Availability of
surveys reliable and
current/updated
agricultural data
4. Facilitate rural 4.1 Rural feeder roads 4.1 Improved inter
development through and river crossings communities, inter-
the provision of construction and farms and inter-
appropriate rehabilitation markets links
infrastructures to 4.2 Farm machinery 4.2 Increased
enhance farmers' and construction availability of farm
access to inputs and equipment machinery,
markets and stem acquisition, construction
rural-urban migration. refurbishment and equipment and
rehabilitation of rehabilitated AEHCs
AEHCs to reduced drudgery
in agricultural
practices
5.1 Nutrition Security Nutrition Status of
improvement infants, children,
5.Ensure Food and Nutrition adolescents, and
Security at the State, women of
Community and Household reproductive age
level enhanced.
5.2 School-based Nutrition Status of
program for improved infants, children,
nutrition adolescents, and
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women of
reproductive age
enhanced.
6. Improve Food 6.1 promotion of Consumption of
Preparation and Quality adequate diet adequate diet
consumption enhanced
7. Ensure effective 5.1 Administration,
and efficient Finance/Accounts,
management of the Human Resources &
finances, Training
administration,
E human resources and 5.1 Effective and
general affairs of efficient management
Niger State's of Agricultural
Agricultural Sector for Sector’s resources,
optimal attainment of (human, financial and
its mandates. material)
5.2 Planning, 5.2 Quality policy
Research & Statistics planning, research
(PRS) and data
management for
decision making
Table 8 presents the profile of the outcome deliverables; setting out the outcomes, their
respective Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), baseline values and realistic targets of the
outcomes over the medium term period of 2020 – 2022. These are to facilitate monitoring and
evaluation of the achievement of the results envisaged under the MTSS.
Table 8: Outcome Deliverables, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Baseline and Targets
Baseline (i.e. Value Outcome Target
Outcome
KPI of Outcome of Outcome in
Deliverable 2020 2021 2022
2018)
1.1 Hectares - 1 drip irrigation Two drip Additional Additional
Increased cultivated under available irrigation 300 tube 300 tube
hectarage irrigation -30 nos tube wells systems to wells,2HR wells, 2HR
of land practices be 3 lister 3 lister
area replicated pumps and pumps and
cultivated in the two 3,775 ha 5000 ha of
under zones of the of land to land to be
irrigation State, 340 be irrigated
practices tube irrigated through
for all year wells,2HR 3 through governme
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Outcome
2018)
round lister governme nt support
agricultural pumps to nt support
production be provided
in selected
Irrigation
Schemes
and 2700
ha of land
to be
irrigated
through
government
support
1.2 The yield per The current yields Yield per Yield per Yield per
Increased hectare of various per hectare in hectare to hectare to hectare to
yield and crops e.g. maize, Metric Tonsure as increase as increase as increase as
availability sorghum, rice, follows: Maize = follows: follows: follows:
of food and cassava, yam, 2.175 MT/ha
cash crops cowpea, b) Sorghum = 1.315 a) Maize a) Maize a) Maize
groundnut, etc. MT/ha 30% 35% 40%
c) Rice = 3.123 b) Sorghum b) b)
MT/ha 30% Sorghum Sorghum
d) Cassava =20.628 c) Rice 40% 40% 50%
MT/ha d) Cassava c) Rice c) Rice
e) Yam = 15.026 30% 45% 50%
MT/ha e) Yam 30% d) Cassava d) Cassava
f) Cowpea = 0.68 f) Cowpea 40% 50%
g) Groundnut = 30% e) Yam e) Yam
1.675 MT/ha g) 40% 50%
Groundnut f) Cowpea f) Cowpea
40% 40% 50%
g) g)
Groundnut Groundnut
50% 60%
1.3 Livestock Current population Produce the Produce Produce
Increased population figures figures of animals following the the
livestock and quality of as at 2014are as population following following
population animals follows: Cattle of livestock: population population
of quality (2,289,634), Goats 2,429,072 of of
animals (2,659,676), Sheep Cattle, livestock: livestock:
(2,428,400) and 2,821,646, 2,501,944 2,577,002
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Outcome
2018)
Poultry (7,225,789) goats, Cattle, Cattle,
(DPRS Livestock to 2,576,289 2,906,295 2,993,483g
provide 2014 data sheep and goats, oats,
as base line) 7,665,838 2,653,577 2,733,184
poultry to sheep and sheep
be 7,895,813 and8,
available. poultry to 132,687po
be ultry to be
available. available.
1.4 Quantity of fish 71,940 MT of fish 80,000 MT 100,000 120,000
Increased produced produced in 2013 of fish to be MT of fish MT of fish
fish produced. to be to be
production produced. produced.
and
availability
to
consumers
1.5 Number of 7,177 farmers 2,000 2,000 2,000
Agricultural farmers having benefited from farmers to farmers to farmers to
Financing access to agricultural benefit benefit benefit
Agricultural financing in 2014 from from from
financing under under NSCACS agricultural agricultura agricultura
NSCACS financing l financing l financing
under under under
NSCACS NSCACS NSCACS
2.1 Percentage 35% losses in major 25% 20% 15%
Minimisati reduction in post- agricultural reduction in reduction reduction
on of post- harvest losses of products including post-harvest in post- in post-
harvest major agricultural crops, livestock and losses of harvest harvest
losses, products including fisheries. major losses of losses of
enhancem crops, livestock agricultural major major
ent of and fisheries. products agricultural agricultural
farmers' including products products
incomes, crops, including including
stabilizatio livestock crops, crops,
n of prices and livestock livestock
of fisheries. and and
agricultural fisheries. fisheries.
products
and Percentage change N125,000 (2014) N150,000 N157,500 N165,375
expansion in farmers’ income
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Outcome
2018)
of from agriculture
employme
nt
2.2 All year Number of Grains availability is Grains Grains Grains
round months that about 75% of total supply to supply to supply to
grains grains are demand (i.e. grains meet 80% meet 85% meet 90%
availability sufficiently not available all of total of total of total
and market available in the year round). demand demand demand
price market in a year from Niger from Niger from Niger
stability State and State and State and
surplus. surplus. surplus.
3.1 Number of 1)1,742,580 1) 1) 1)
Increased farmers adopting farmers have 1,800,000 1,910,000 2,000,000
number of improved adopted improved farmers to farmers to farmers to
farmers technologies technologies. adopt adopt adopt
adopting improved improved improved
improved 2) 3 No On-Farm technologie technologi technologi
agricultural Research Trials s. es. es.
technologi conducted.
es
2) 12 No 2) 12 No 2) 12 No
On-Farm On-Farm On-Farm
Research Research Research
Trials to be Trials to be Trials to be
conducted. conducted. conducted.
3.2 Level of Current level of Level of Level of Level of
Increased agricultural agricultural productivity productivit productivit
agricultural manpower manpower , efficiency y, y,
manpower productivity, productivity, and efficiency efficiency
productivit efficiency and efficiency and effectivenes and and
y, effectiveness effectiveness is s to effectiven effectiven
efficiency medium. increase by ess to ess to
and 10%. increase increase
effectivene by 10%. by 10%.
ss
3.3 Number/proporti 1)40% of farmers in 1)50% of 1)70% of 1)80% of
Increased on of farmers Niger State have farmers in farmers in farmers in
access to having access to access to quality Niger State Niger State Niger State
quality quality agriculture inputs. to have to have to have
agricultural agricultural inputs 2) Farmers access to access to access to
inputs by registration quality quality quality
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Outcome
2018)
farmers exercise (GES); agriculture agriculture agriculture
1,500,000farmersre inputs. inputs. inputs.
gistered. 2) 250,000 2) 250,000 2) 250,000
farmers to farmers to farmers to
be be be
registered registered registered
under under under
(GES). (GES). (GES).
3.4 1) Regularity and 1) VLSconducted 1) 2 nosAPS 1) 2 1)2 nosAPS

Availability quality of 2014 and report reports nosAPS reports
of reliable Village Listing on progress to be reports to be
and Survey (VLS) 2) 2013APS reports produced to be produce
current/up report available. . produce d.
dated produced. 3) January - 2) 12 d. 2)12
agricultural 2) Regularity and December nosMPS 2) 12 nosMPS
data quality of 2014MPS reports nosMPS reports
Agricultural reports to be reports to be
production available. produced to be produce
survey (APS) . produce d.
report d.
produced.
3) Regularity and
quality of
Market Price
Survey (MPS)
report
produced.
4.1 Kilometer of rural One 8-km rural 1) 176 km 1) 200 km 1) 130 km
Improved roads and number road rehabilitated. of rural of rural of rural
inter- of river crossings roads to be roads to roads to
communiti rehabilitated/cons rehabilitate be be
es, inter- tructed. d. rehabilitat rehabilitat
farms and 2)10 river ed. ed.
inter- crossings to 2) 50 km 2) 100 km
markets be of rural of rural
links constructed roads to roads to
. be be
constructe constructe
d. d.
3) 25 river 3) 20 river
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Outcome
2018)
crossings crossings
to be to be
constructe constructe
d. d.
4.2 Number of Tractors currently1) 14 G Additional Additional
Increased functional farm available are as motor 30 Nos MF 30 Nos MF
availability machinery and follows: grader to 375 and 70 375 and 70
of farm construction 91 Nos MF 375; be Nos MF Nos MF
machinery equipment 70 Nos MF 275; refurbishe 275 to be 275 to be
and available for use 58 Nos MF 260; d. procured. procured.
constructio by farmers. 4 No Mahindra; 2) Addi
n 5 No Eicher; tional 30
equipment 7 No New Holland; Nos MF
to reduced 3 No Vitec; and 375 and
drudgery in 3 No MF 435. 75 Nos
agricultural MF 275 to
practices be
procured.
3) 15
No.
tractors to
be
refurbish.
5.1 Level of Effectiveness and Effectivenes Effectivene Effectivene
Effective effectiveness and efficiency of s and ss and ss and
and efficiency of the resources efficiency of efficiency efficiency
efficient management of management are at resources of of
manageme the Agricultural a medium level manageme resources resources
nt of Sector's resources nt to manageme manageme
Agricultural (human, financial improve by nt to nt to
Sector’s and material). 20% improve improve
resources, by 10% by 10%
(human,
financial
and
material)
5.2 Quality Quality of policy Quality of policy Quality of Quality of Quality of
policy planning, research planning, research policy policy policy
planning, and data and data planning, planning, planning,
research management for management for research research research
and data decision making decision making is and data and data and data
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Outcome
2018)
manageme in the Agricultural at medium level. manageme manageme manageme
nt for Sector. nt for nt for nt for
decision decision decision decision
making. making to making to making to
improve by improve improve
20%. by 10%. by 10%.
Nutrition Under-five 123 per 1,000 live Reduce Reduce Reduce
Status of mortality rate births. under-five under-five under-five
infants, caused by mortality mortality mortality
children, malnutrition . rate caused rate caused rate caused
adolescents by by by
, and malnutrition malnutritio malnutritio
women of to 111 per n to 88 per n to 70 per
reproductiv 1,000 live 1,000 live 1,000 live
e age births. . births. . births. .
enhanced.
Consumpti the state’s 8.5% of the state’s the state’s the state’s the state’s
on of population population population population population
adequate undernourished undernourished undernouris undernour undernour
diet hed
ished ished
enhanced reduced to
7.7 % reduced to reduced to
6.2 % 4.9 %
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Chapter 3: The Development of Sector Strategy
3.1 Outline Major Strategic Challenges

The key challenges facing the Agricultural Sector of Niger State have been identified through
situation analysis of the sector, SPR and review of high level policy documents. The challenges
which determined the strategic focus of this MTSS are itemized in Sections 2.3and 2.5.
Besides these, however, a major strategic challenge that was raised and considered in the
course of rolling over the Agricultural Sector MTSS was the funding constraint for the plan,
especially the capital component of the plan. This observation was raised in 2020-2022
rollovers. The challenge arose from two sources. First, historically, releases for capital budgets
have not been encouraging at all (See Section 3.2). In 2018 for example, no amount of the
approved capital budget of the Agricultural Sector was released (See Table 9); and nothing has
been released for capital projects out of the 2016 approved capital budget as at May, 2016 (See
Table 10). Secondly, the State’s Medium Term Budget Framework (MTBF) indicated a more
drastic resource constraint over the plan period than in the past. For instance, the indicative
capital budget ceiling issued to the Agricultural Sector for 2017 was only 14% of the 2016
approved capital budget (See Tables 2 and 10).
In such a circumstance, the question being asked is: how reasonable is it to make the kind of
capital expenditure proposals that were made in the past since most of the proposals will not
be funded? In response, the sector decided to propose those programmes and projects that it
believed will facilitate the achievement of Niger State’s Agricultural goal while remaining within
the indicative capital budget ceiling issued to the Sector by the NSPC. In view of these, the
Agricultural Sector can only hope that the indicative budget ceilings provided were realistically
determined such that it will be possible for the State to release funds for the projects as
planned.
3.2 Resource Constraints

This section presents the following:
• An overview of the 2017 and 2018 budget implementation;
• Projects scoring and prioritization;
• Existing budget commitments (both recurrent and capital); and
• A summary of cancelled or shut down projects.
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3.2.1 Overview of 2017 and 2018 Budget Implementation
Table 9. Capital and Recurrent Budget Performance 2017 and 2018 (N’b)
Total Budget
Capital Recurrent
Size
Year
Budget Actual (%) Budget Actual (%)

Impl. Impl.
2017 8.2
3,900,204,932 2,793,000,000 228,912,405.76 1,107,204,932 990,338,748.92 89.44
2018 13.6
81,042,208,585 5,072,016,662 689,275,432.00 1,132,554,804 1,163,491,108.29 102.7
Total
84,942,413,517 7,865,016,662 918,187,837.76 2,239,759,736 2,153,829,857.21
For the Agricultural Sector as a whole, releases for personnel and capital were 89.4% and 8.2%
of the approved budgets respectively in 2017 (See Table 9). For 2018 between January to May
69.14% and 5.32% of the recurrent and capital budget have been implemented
Releases in respect of the approved capital budgets have been appalling. For example, only
8.2% of the approved capital budget of the Agricultural Sector was released in 2017 while less
than 1 percent has been released so far in 2018.
Things that went well in the course of implementing the 2017 and 2018 budgets were as
follows:
• There was political will to reposition Agricultural Sector in Niger State. This was
demonstrated through:
o Participation in the Federal Government Agricultural Transformation Agenda

Support Program phase-1;
o Participation in CBN-Anchor Borrowers’ Programme
o Participation in the Accelerated Agricultural Development Scheme (AADS)
o Facilitation of improved accessibility to Agricultural inputs by farmers such as
tractors, seeds, fertilizers vaccines/drugs etc.;
o Improvement on extension services through provision of additional logistics such
as allowances and motorcycles.
o participation in Value Chain Development Programme; and
o Improvement in rural roads rehabilitation through RAMP II Project, FADAMA III,
Value Chain Development Programme (VCDP) and Local Government road
maintenance activities to facilitate the delivery of Agricultural products and
inputs.
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• Payment of salaries and allowances were made as at when due;
• Part payment of counterpart funds.
The major challenges encountered in the course of implementing the 2015 and 2016 budgets
were the delay in approving 2016 budget and releasing approved funds for capital projects. For
example, Table 10 indicates that no fund was released for capital projects as at May, 2016.
Similarly, counterpart contribution for FADAMA III, Value Chain Development programme and
RAMPII for 2015 were not fully paid as at December, 2015 and as at May, 2016 no fund was
released for these programmes.
3.2.2 Projects Scoring and Prioritization

In order to ensure that capital expenditure proposals in the Agricultural Sector MTSS remain
within the indicative capital budget ceilings issued by the NSPC and to facilitate projects
selection in line with government priorities, a projects prioritization framework was required.
Accordingly, all the existing, ongoing and new projects of the Agricultural Sector were scored
and prioritized in order to facilitate selection among them. The scoring was done using a
framework of 5 criteria. The criteria are as follows:
• Evidence that the existing projects are indeed ongoing;

• Clarity of current justification for the budget commitment;
• Current impact of budget commitment;
• Likelihood of completing the project in 2017 – 2018 timeframe; and
• Relation to the Sector’s goals; i.e. how critical is this project to the achievement of
the Sector’s goals under the NSDBP, Vision 3:2020, or MTDP or SDGs?
All the five criteria were applied to existing and ongoing projects while only criterion five was
applied to new projects. The existing and ongoing projects were ranked or prioritized on the
basis of their average score on the five scoring criteria; while the new projects were ranked or
prioritized on the basis of their scores on criterion five. The scorecards of both groups of
projects are presented in Annex 7.
The standard sequences of capital projects selection in MTSS are as follows:
• The first set of projects to be selected are the ongoing projects; these are projects in
the 2016 budget that will not be completed in 2016 and will spill over to 2017 or
beyond;
• If funds remain from the indicative capital budget ceiling after selecting the ongoing
projects, then, existing projects are the next in line for selection. These are uncompleted
projects that appeared in previous years’ budgets but for one reason or the other, they
did not appear in the 2016 budget; and
• It is if funds remain from the indicative budget ceilings after selecting the ongoing
and existing projects that new projects are selected. These are projects that have never
featured in the State budget before but are considered by the sector to have the
potential of contributing to the achievement of sector goals.
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This standard sequence of capital projects selection was applied in selecting the projects
reported in the Logframe of this MTSS (See Table 16).
3.2.3 Existing Budget Commitments (Recurrent and Capital)

Table 5 presents the personnel and overhead costs commitments and their projections over the
medium term of 2020 – 2022.
Table 1:
Table 10: Personnel Costs – Existing and Projected

Items of Personnel Approved Actual Jan - Projections
Costs 2019 May 2019 2020 2021 2022
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD)
Number of Staff 242 228 257 275 283
Basic Salary (N'000) 116,177 116,177 123.148 131,768 135,721

Consolidated
Allowances (N'000) 8,918 8,918 9453 10,115 10,418
Total Personnel Cost
(N'000) 125,095 125,095 132,601 141,883 146,139
Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries
Number of Staff 217 218 250 268 276
Basic Salary (N'000) 404,191 252,288 267,425 286,145 294,729

Consolidated
Allowances (N'000) 43,256 40,986 43,445 46,486 47,881
(N'000) 299,274 299,274 310,870 332,631 342,611
Niger State Agriculture Mechanization and Development Authority (NAMDA)
Number of Staff 894 888 953 1,020 1,050
Basic Salary (N'000) 717,096 340,129 717,499 767,724 790,756

Consolidated
Allowances (N'000) 33,736 - - - -
(N'000) 676,886 676,886 717,499 767,724 790,756
Agricultural Sector
Number of Staff 1377 1,352 1,460 1,563 1,609
Basic Salary (N'000) 1,045,351 708,594 1,108,072 1,067,047 1,221,206
Consolidated 49,904 49,904 52,898 56,601 58,299
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Allowances (N'000)
(N'000) 1,095,255 758,498 1,160,970 1,123,648 1,279,505
Table 11: Overhead Costs –Existing and Projected (See details in Annex 6)
Actual Jan - Projections (N'000)
Approved jun
2019 2020
Constituent MDAs 2018(N'000) 2018(N'000) 2021
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural
Development (MARD) 65,000 12,000 66,300 67,626 68,978
Ministry of Livestock and
Fisheries 7,000 5,300 7,140 7,283 7,429
Niger State Agricultural
Mechanization and Development
Authority (NAMDA) 10,000 2,483 10,200 10,404 10,608.08
Agricultural Sector Total 82,000 19,783 83,640 85,313 87,015.08
Source: Approved overhead budgets were from the 2018 Budget Book of Niger State; the actual
overhead figures were from the MDAs; projected overheads were as issued to the sector by the
NSPC
By the standard of MTSS process, after costing the projects (existing, ongoing and new), the
next step is to fit the costed projects into indicative budget ceilings for the respective years of
2017– 2019; and then phase out the implementation of the proposed projects.
3.2.4 Summary of Cancelled or Shut Down Projects

There was no any existing or ongoing project that was cancelled or shut down because during
the scoring and prioritization all of them performed well.
3.3 Contributions from our Partners

Table 7 presents a summary of the financial implications of Development Partners’ activities in
the Niger State Agricultural Sector. Development Partners are defined here to include Private
Sector Partnership. The table shows the amount of funds available from the respective
partners, the State and Local Government counterpart contribution requirements where
applicable. All the State and Local Government counterpart contribution requirements have
been included as MTSS expenditure proposals for the respective years.
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Table 12: Grants and Donor Funding
Local Government
State Counterpart Counterpart
Contribution Contribution
Source / Expected Draw down Requirements Requirements
Description of (N'million) (N'million) (N'million)
Grant 2019 2020 2021 2019 2020 2021 2018 2019 2020
Fadama III +
Additional 486 - - 50 - - Nil Nil Nil
Financing.
RAMP II 2000 2,000 2,200 125 125 125 125 125 125
Value Chain
Development 450 458 458 87.1 87.1 87.1 Nil Nil Nil
Programme
State
contribution
for KOICA
modern Rice 0 0 0 10 10 10 Nil Nil Nil
Processing
complex
project
RIPMAPP State
0 0 0 30 30 30 Nil Nil Nil
Contribution
National
Programme for
105 105 105 42.4 42.4 42.4 32.4 32.4 32.4
Food Security
(NPFS)
Agricultural
Transformation
Agenda
2,053 1,800 1,800 66 66 66 Nil Nil Nil
Support
Program Phase
–I
Total 5,094 4,363 5663 410.5 360.5 360.5 157.4 157.4 157.4
Source: Data from the MDAs.
3.4 Programme Connections between Sector MDAs

This MTSS has demonstrated strong programme connections between Agricultural Sector
MDAs and between MDAs of other sectors as follows:
First, a number of programmes in the Agricultural Sector’s MTSS cut across Sector MDAs to
enhance synergy and team working. An example is Crop, livestock and fishery Production
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Programmes. The Water and Sanitation provides dams for irrigation farming, livestock
production and fishing. Similarly, Agricultural sector provides inputs and extension workers to
the School farms under the Education sector while the Education sector provides trained
personnel to Agriculture sector. Also, Agriculture sector provides employment to the
Governance and transport sectors while the Infrastructures Sector is expected to contribute to
the achievement of the outcome of the rural feeder roads rehabilitation programme of the
Agricultural Sector.
Secondly, the State level goals for Agriculture were the basis of the goals and programmes
developed for the Agriculture MTSS. This means that as the sector level programmes are being
implemented and the sector level goals are being achieved, these will contribute to the
achievement of State level goals and broader national and regional policy objectives such as
those under the ATA and SDGs.
53
3.5 Outline of Key Strategies
Section 1.3 of this MTSS document summarises the main strategies and strategic direction of the
Agricultural Sector2018 – 2020 MTSS. The main strategies included: intensification of irrigation
practices; encouragement of the adoption of modern agricultural methods and technologies;
and adoption of AI technique to boost livestock production. This section seeks to break the main
strategies/strategic directions down to specific projects.
Accordingly, Table 15 presents the projects that the Agricultural Sector plans to execute in order
to achieve its medium term goals and outcomes. The presentation include the outputs of the
respective projects, their KPIs, baselines, targets for 2018 – 2020, the MDA responsible for
execution of the projects and the proposed budgets for the respective projects for each year.
In the course of costing the projects, recurrent cost implications of the Capital Projects were
properly taken into account and where applicable. For example, in the case of purchase of
vehicles, fueling and maintenance costs were included in the project costing, in addition to costs
of registration, vehicle papers and insurance. Similarly, maintenance costs in outer years of the
MTSS were included as part of the costing of capital projects such as irrigation, agro-processing,
marketing development and construction of livestock pens.
The MTSS of the Agricultural Sector presented in this document and summarized in Table 15
seeks to inculcate the culture of development planning, plan implementation, monitoring and
performance evaluation in the sector personnel. The MTSS was prepared by the Sector Planning
Team made up of senior sector personnel. The plan will also be implemented, monitored and
evaluated by the sector personnel as explained in Chapter 5.
Even though the first generation Agricultural Sector MTSS was prepared in 2013, the MTSS
process is still very much a learning experience for the Agricultural Sector of Niger State. This
MTSS rollover has further strengthened MTSS skills in the sector personnel. Some of the
weaknesses inherent in this MTSS rollover were highlighted in Section 1.2 of this document. We
hope to improve on the MTSS when it is reviewed in subsequent years.
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Table 13: Summary of Projects’ Expenditures and Output Measures
App
rove
d Budgeted Expenditure
Output Target
Exis Allo / Cost (N'000)
ting cati
(E)/ on MT
On to Base SS
Project / goi the Line (i.e. Act MDA
Progra Output
Activity ng Proj Output Output ivit Respon
mme KPI
Title (O) ect Value in y sible
/ in 2018) Co
Ne 201 2020 2021 2022 2020 2021 2022 de
w 9
(N) Bud
get
(N'0
00)
Irrigati
Replicatio
on
n of drip Number 1 drip 1 drip 1 drip
2 drip 1 drip Service
irrigation of drip irrigation irrigation irrigation
irrigation irrigation 1.1 s
system at O 0 33,62 36,90 49,40 irrigation system to system to system to
system system .1 Depart
the 2 3.00 3.00 8.00 systems be be be
replicated. in place ment
1.1 Geopolitic replicated replicated replicated replicated
(MARD
Irrigatio al Zones.
).
n
Irrigati
Develop Number 6 ofHR3 2no HR3 2no HR3 2no HR3
Procurem 6no HR3 on
ment ofHR3 lister lister lister lister
ent of 2no lister Service
lister pumps pumps to pumps to pumps to
HR3 lister pumps 1.1 s
E 0 36,84 40,43 54,13 pumps available be be be
pumps for procured .2 Depart
1.00 6.00 7.00 procured in Jima procured procured procured
Jima and for Jima ment
for Jima and for Jima for Jima for Jima
Doko and Doko (MARD
and Doko Doko and Doko and Doko and Doko
).
55
Provision
1000 tube Number 1,000 340 tube 300 tube 300 tube
of 1000 Irrigati
wells and of tube tube wells to wells to wells to
tube wells on
irrigation wells wells be be be
and Service
pumps provided provided provided provided provided
irrigation 1.1 s
E 0 254,6 279,4 374,1 provided across the in the across the across the across the
pumps .3 Depart
06.00 41.00 29.00 across 10 10 selected 10 10 10
across 10 ment
selected selected 10 selected selected selected
selected (MARD
irrigation irrigation irrigation irrigation irrigation irrigation
irrigation ).
schemes schemes schemes schemes schemes schemes
schemes
Depart
ment
Conduct Number of
720 slots 240no 240no 240no
of of Agricult
sensitizati Sensitizati Sensitizati Sensitizati
sensitisati sensitizati ural
on and on/2no on/2no on/1no
on/advoca on/ Service
5no advocacy advocacy advocacy
cy on advocacy s and
advocacy on on on 1.2
improved O 29,39 32,25 43,18 on Linkage
improved improve improve improve .1
crop 1.00 8.00 9.00 improved s
crop crop crop crop
productio crop (MARD
productio productio productio productio
n productio ) (PRO
n n to be n to be n to be
programm n AGRIC
1.2 Crop conducted conducted conducted conducted
e conducted TO
Producti
UPDAT
on
E)
Depart
Home Number ment
3no Home 1no Home 1no Home 1no Home
economics of home of
economics economics economics economics
developm economics Agricult
projects project to project to project to
ent projects ural
developed be be be 1.2
project in E 25,46 27,94 37,41 developed Service
in 3 geo- developed developed developed .2
3 geo- 0.00 4.00 3.00 in 3 geo- s and
political in zones in zones in zones
political political Linkage
zones of "A" of the "B" of the "C" of the
zones of zones of s
the state state state state
the state the state (MARD
)
56
Depart
Rehabilita Number 1no clinics ment
2no clinics 1no clinics
tion of of clinic to be of
rehabilitat to be 1.3
Kuta and E 7,638 8,383. 11,22 rehabilitat rehabilitat animal
ed Kuta rehabilitat .1
Paiko .00 00 4.00 ed at Kuta ed at health
and Paiko ed at Kuta
Clinics and Paiko Paiko (MARD
)
Number Depart
Rehabilita 2no clinics
of clinic 1no clinics 1no clinics ment
tion of rehabilitat
rehabilitat to be to be of
Kagara ed at 1.3
E 10,18 11,17 14,96 ed at rehabilitat rehabilitat animal
and New Kagara .2
4.00 8.00 5.00 Kagara ed at ed at New health
BussaClini and New
and New Kagara Bussa (MARD
cs Bussa
Bussa )
Depart
Rehabilita Number 1no clinic 1no clinic ment
2no clinics
1.3 tion of of clinics to be to be of
rehabilitat 1.3
Livestoc Bida and E 7,638 8,383. 11,22 rehabilitat rehabilitat rehabilitat animal
ed at Bida .3
k Kutigi .00 00 4.00 ed atBida ed at Bida ed at Bida health
and Kutigi
Producti Clinics and Kutigi Kutigi Kutigi (MARD
on )
Depart
Procurem
ment
ent of 28,000 10,000 8,000 10,000
Number of
28,000 number number number number
of semen, 1.3 animal
semen E 25,46 27,94 37,41 semen semen semen semen
straws .4 produc
straws of 1.00 4.00 3.00 straws straws straws straws
procured tion
exotic procured procured procured procured
(MARD
cattle
)
Depart
20 10 10 ment
Number
Procurem Number Number Number of
of
ent of 20 of of of 1.3 animal
E 10,43 11,45 15,33 Inseminati
inseminati Inseminati Inseminati Inseminati .5 produc
9.00 7.00 9.00 on kits
on kits on kits on kits on kits tion
procured
procured procured procured (MARD
)
57
Depart
Procured Procured
Procurem Number Procured Procured ment
6,000 2,000
ent of of 2,000stra 2,000stra of
straws of straws of
6,000 synchronis ws of ws of 1.3 animal
E 12,73 13,97 18,70 synchronis synchronis
synchronis ing synchronis synchronis .6 produc
0.00 2.00 7.00 ing ing
ing hormones ing ing tion
hormones hormones
hormones procured hormones hormones (MARD
. .
)
Depart
ment
Procure 15 Number 10
5 number of
15 number of number
nitrogen 1.3 animal
number E 5,092 5,589. 7,483 nitrogen nitrogen nitrogen
tanks .7 produc
Nitrogen .00 00 .00 tanks tanks tanks
procured tion
tanks procured procured procured
(MARD
)
Depart
1000ltres 500ltres 500ltres ment
Procurem Quantity
2000Ltrs of of of of
ent of of
Nitrogen nitrogen nitrogen nitrogen 1.3 animal
2000Ltrs E 1,400 1,536. 2,058 nitrogen
liquids liquid to liquid to liquid to .8 produc
Nitrogen .00 00 .00 liquid
Procured be be be tion
liquids procured
procured procured procured (MARD
)
Depart
ment
Equipping 1 noAI 1 of
AIlaborato
AILaborat Laborator (one)AIlab 1.3 animal
E 5,092 5,589. 7,483 ry
ory at y oratory .9 produc
.00 00 .00 Equipped
Tagwai Equipped Equipped tion
(MARD
)
Depart
1 no 1 (one) 1 (one)
Equipping Veterinary ment
veterinary veterinary veterinary
veterinary Clinic at 1.3 of
E 17,82 19,56 26,18 Clinic at Clinic at Clinic at
Clinic at Tagwai .10 animal
2.00 1.00 9.00 Tagwai Tagwai Tagwai
Tagwai Equipped health
equipped equipped equipped
(MARD
58
)
Training Number
Twenty Depart
oftwenty 20 no of
(20) ment
(20) profession additional
profession of
additional al and profession
al and 1.3 animal
profession E 1,018 1,118. 1,497 technical al and
technical .11 produc
al and .00 00 .00 Inseminat technical
Inseminat tion
technical ors inseminat
ors (MARD
inseminat trained ors
trained )
ors trained
Number
Equipping
Hatchery of
of
and cold Hatchery
Hatchery
room and cold
and cold
Equipping room
room,
, senior Equipped,
rehabilitat senior Depart
staff Number drainage
ion of staff ment
quarters of senior Hatchery and
senior quarters of
and staff and cold landscapin
staff and 1.3 animal
E 17,82 19,56 26,18 labour quarters room to g of
quarters labour line .12 produc
2.00 1.00 9.00 linerehabil and be premises
and labour to be tion
itated, labour line equipped to be
line, rehabilitat (MARD
drainage rehabilitat provided
provision ed )
and ed and
of
landscapin length of
drainage
g of drainagep
,and
premises remises
landscapin
provided landscape
g
d
59
Constructi Depart
1 number Number 1 number
on and 1 number ment
referral of referral referral
equipping referral of
laboratory laboratory laboratory 1.3
of 1no 19,09 20,95 28,06 laboratory animal
constructe constructe to be .13
referral 6.00 8.00 0.00 to be health
d and d and constructe
veterinary equipped (MARD
equipped equipped d
laboratory )
Depart
6no ment
Equipping 6no Number
Veterinary of
6 no Veterinary Veterinary 1.3
E 0 3,819 4,192. 5,612 Clinic to animal
Veterinary Clinic Clinic .14
.00 00 .00 be health
Clinic equipped equipped
equipped (MARD
)
Depart
Quantity
Procurem Suppleme Suppleme Suppleme ment
Suppleme of
ent of ntary ntary ntary of
ntary suppleme 1.3
suppleme E 0 8,911 9,779. 13,09 Feeds to Feeds to Feeds to animal
Feeds ntary .15
ntary .00 00 5.00 be be be health
Procured feeds
Feeds Procured Procured Procured (MARD
procured
)
Vaccinatio 10million
Depart
n of CBPP 4,000,CBP 4,000,CBP 4,000,CBP
Number ment
10million vaccines P, 13,000 P, 8,000 P, 6,000
of CBPP of
cattle, and 27 PPRvaccin PPRvaccin PPRvaccin 1.3
E 0 12,09 13,27 17,77 and PPR animal
12million million es and es and es and .16
4.00 3.00 1.00 vaccines health
sheep and PPR diluents diluents diluents
procured (MARD
15million vaccines procured procured procured
)
Goats procured
Depart
Number 1no calf
1no calf ment
Constructi of calf pen pen (creep
pen (creep of
on of Calf (creep feeder) to 1.3
E 19,09 20,95 28,06 feeder) animal
pen (creep feeder) be .17
6.00 8.00 0.00 constructe health
feeder) constructe constructe
d (MARD
d d
)
60
Depart
Constructi Number 1 block of
1 block of ment
on and of 1block 2 class
2 class of
furnishing of 2 class rooms to 1.3
E 10,82 11,87 15,90 rooms animal
of 1block rooms be .18
1.00 6.00 1.00 constructe health
of 2class constructe constructe
d (MARD
rooms d d
)
Depart
ment
of
grazing
Number 3 grazing 5 grazing
Gazette of 8 grazing reserve
of grazing reserves reserves 1.3
8 grazing E 19,09 20,95 28,06 reserves and
reserves to be to be .19
reserves 5.00 8.00 0.00 gazette range
gazette gazette gazetted
manag
ement
(MARD
)
Depart
ment
Hectarage 250ha plot 250ha plot of
Maintena 250ha plot
of plot at at Bobi at Bobi grazing
nce of at Bobi
Bobi grazing grazing reserve
250ha plot grazing 1.3
E 14,00 15,36 20,57 grazing reserve to reserve to and
at Bobi reserve .20
3.00 9.00 7.00 reserve be be range
grazing maintaine
maintaine maintaine maintaine manag
reserve d
d. d d ement
(MARD
)
Number Depart
Installatio
Sign post of Sign Sign post ment
n of sign
installed post installed of
post at
at flashy installed at flashy grazing
flashy 1.3
E 2,546 2,794. 3,741 cattle at flashy cattle reserve
cattle .21
.00 00 .00 crossing cattle crossing and
crossing
points on crossing points on range
points on
high ways. points on high ways manag
high ways
high ways. ement
61
(MARD
)
Depart
ment
Number of
Fencing of Livestock
Livestock of grazing
livestock service
service livestock reserve
service centre at 1.3
E 0 8,361 9,177. 12,28 centre at centre and
centre at Garungab .22
.00 00 7.00 Garungab fenced at range
Garungab as to be
as fenced Garungab manag
as fenced
as ement
(MARD
)
Depart
ment
of
Procurem Four (4) Number Four (4) Four (4) Four (4) grazing
ent of 4 Bajaj of 4 Bajaj Bajaj Bajaj Bajaj reserve
1.3
Bajaj E 2,037 2,236. 2,993 Motorcycl motorcycl Motorcycl Motorcycl Motorcycl and
.23
motorcycl .00 00 .00 e es e e e range
es procured procured. procured procured procured manag
ement
(MARD
)
10 Number 5 5 5 Depart
sensitisati of sensitisati sensitisati sensitisati ment
Sensitizati
on/Advoc sensitisati on/Advoc on/Advoc on/Advoc of
on/Advoc
acy visits, on/Advoc acy visits, acy visits, acy visits, 1.3 grazing
ate visits E 1,902 2,088. 2,795
3 acy visits, 1 meeting 1 meeting 1 meeting .24 reserve
and .00 00 .00
meetings meetings and and and and
publicity
and and publicity publicity publicity range
publicity publicity on radio on radio on radio manag
62
on radio on radio and TV and TV and TV ement
and TV and TV carried carried carried (MARD
carried carried out out out )
out out
One Fish
Depart
Establishm processing One Fish
Fish Fish ment
ent of Fish center processing
processing processing of
processing establishe center to 1.4
E 25,46 27,94 37,41 center center to Fisherie
center at d at be .1
1.00 4.00 3.00 establishe be s
Tagwai Tagwai establishe
d. completed (MARD
Fish Fish d
)
hatchery. hatchery
1 1 market
Depart
Constructi (One)mark outlet to
ment
on of et outlet Market be
of
market constructe outlet constructe 1.4
E 6,365 6,986. 9,353 Fisherie
outlet at d at constructe d at .2
1.4 .00 00 .00 s
Tagwai Tagwai d Tagwai
Fishery (MARD
fish fish fish
Producti )
hatchery hatchery hatchery
on
Depart
1 number number of 1 number
Constructi ment
2 2 2
on of 1 of
bedroom bedroom bedroom 1.4
number 2 E 9,548 10,47 14,03 Fisherie
flat flat flat to be .3
bedroom .00 9.00 0.00 s
Construct Construct Construct
flat (MARD
ed ed ed
)
Procurem Depart
Number
ent of 2 ment
2 Boat and of Boats 2 Boat and
boats and 1.4 of
O 20,36 22,35 29,93 OBEprocu and OBEto be
outboard .4 Fisherie
8.00 5.00 0.00 red OBEsproc procured
engines s
ured
(OBE) (MARD
63
)
Depart
Two (2) Number 1 Zonal 2 Zonal ment
Establishm
zonal of zonal hatchery hatchery of
ent of two 1.4
O 5,092 5,589. 7,483 hatcheries hatcheries to be to be Fisherie
zonal .5
.00 00 .00 constructe constructe establishe establishe s
hatcheries
d d d d (MARD
)
State
contributi
Depart
on to the 4,000,000 Amount 2,000,000 2,000,000
ment
Kainji Lake paid as paid as to be paid to be paid
of
Fisheries State State as State as State 1.4
O 5,092 5,589. 7,483 Fisherie
Managem contributi contributi contributi contributi .6
.00 00 .00 s
ent and on to the on to the on to the on to the
(MARD
Conservati KLFMCU KLFMCU KLFMCU KLFMCU
)
on Unit
(KLFMCU)
NGSG
annual
contributi
ons to 6 million 2 million 2 million 2million
National naira naira naira naira
Amount
Institute Annual Annual Annual Annual Depart
paid to
for State State State State ment
NIFFRI and
Freshwate Governme Governme Governme Governme of
ECOWAS 1.4
r Fisheries O 5,092 5,589. 7,483 nt grants / nt grants / nt grants / nt grants / Fisherie
as grant .7
Research .00 00 .00 contributi contributi contributi contributi s
and
(NIFFRI) on to on to on to on to (MARD
contributi
and NIFFRI and NIFFRI and NIFFRI and NIFFRI and )
on
ECOWAS ECOWAS ECOWAS ECOWAS ECOWAS
for paid. to be paid to be paid to be paid
fisheries
developm
ent
64
Procurem 2,460 2,500 2,000
ent of 6,960 Fishing Fishing Fishing Depart
Number
6,960 Fishing nets,2,000 nets,1,000 nets,1,000 ment
of Fishing
Fishing nets,4,500 Fishing Fishing Fishing of
nets, 1.4
nets, O 26,42 29,00 38,83 Fishing Hooks and Hooks and Hooks and Fisherie
hooks and .8
4,500 6.00 3.00 0.00 Hooks and 5,000 15,000 8500 s
twines
hooks and 28,500 Twines to Twines to Twines to (MARD
procured.
28,500 Twines be be be )
twines procured procured procured
Depart
Number
1no fish 1no fish ment
Rehabilita of fish
farm farm to be of
tion of farm 1.4
N 13,21 14,50 19,41 rehabilitat rehabilitat Fisherie
Wuya Fish rehabilitat .9
3.00 2.00 6.00 ed at ed at s
Farm ed at
Wuya Wuya (MARD
Wuya
)
Niger
State
Agricult
Amount N7,000,00 N7,000,00
N21,000,0 7,000,000 ure and
Support paid as 0 to be 0 to be
00 Paid as to be Paid Mecha
for support Paid as Paid as 1.5
O 50,92 55,88 74,82 support as support nizatio
NSCACS for support support .1
1.00 8.00 5.00 forNSCAC forNSCAC n
activities NSCACS forNSCAC forNSCAC
S activities S activities Authori
activities S activities S activities
ty
1.5
(NAMD
Agricult
A)
ural
Depart
Financin
ment
g
N10milli of
N13.5milli N3.5millio N3.5millio
Payment N20.5mili Amount on Plannin
on to be n to be n to be
of on paid as paid as unpaid g
paid as paid as paid as 1.5
premium O 57,28 62,87 84,17 premium premium as Researc
premium premium premium .2
subsidy to 6.00 4.00 9.00 subsidy to subsidy to premium h
subsidy to subsidy to subsidy to
NAIC NAIC NAIC subsidy Statisti
NAIC NAIC NAIC
to NAIC cs
(MARD
)
65
Depart
ment
of
500
Number 250 250 Plannin
farmer
Agricultur of farmers farmers to farmers to g
groups to 1.5
e Trust O 63,65 69,86 93,53 to benefit benefit benefit Researc
benefit .3
Fund 2.00 0.00 2.00 from the from the from the h
from the
Trust Fund Trust Fund Trust Fund Statisti
Trust Fund
cs
(MARD
)
Depart
ment
Number 1no
Establishm Cotton of
of cotton cotton
ent of markets Produc
market markets 2.1
cotton 10,82 11,87 15,90 Establishe e and
establishe Establishe .1
markets at 1.00 6.00 1.00 d at Pest
d at d at
Babanna Babanna Control
Babanna Babanna
2.1 (MARD
Agro- )
processi Depart
ng and ment
1no Number 1no
marketi Establishm of
cotton of cotton cotton
ng ent of Produc
markets market markets 2.1
develop cotton 12,09 13,27 17,77 e and
Establishe establishe Establishe .2
ment, markets at 4.00 3.00 1.00 Pest
d at d at d at
value Agwara Control
Agwara Agwara Agwara
addition (MARD
and )
Preserv Depart
ation ment
1no Number 1no
Establishm of
cotton of cotton cotton
ent of Produc
markets market markets 2.1
cotton 9,548 10,47 14,05 e and
Establishe establishe Establishe .3
markets at .00 9.00 8.00 Pest
d at New d at New d at New
N/Bussa Control
Bussa. Bussa Bussa
(MARD
)
66
1000 400 300 300
Number
Train 1000 number number number number
of farmers
farmers farmers farmers farmers farmers
on
on on on on on
appropriat
appropriat appropriat appropriat appropriat appropriat
e use of
e use of e use of e use of e use of e use of
1,575 1,655. 1,737 fertilizers
fertilizers N 0 fertilizers fertilizers fertilizers fertilizers MARD
.00 00 .00 (organic/i
(organic/i (organic/i (organic/i (organic/i (organic/i
norganic),
norganic), norganic), norganic), norganic), norganic),
herbicides
herbicides herbicides herbicides herbicides herbicides
and
and and and and and
pesticides
pesticides pesticides pesticides pesticides pesticides
trained.
trained trained trained trained
16
Number 6 number 5 number 5 number
number
Conduct regular regular regular regular
regular
16 regular Stakehold Stakehold Stakehold Stakehold
Stakehold
Stakehold ers ers ers ers
ers
ers meeting meeting meeting meeting
meeting
meeting 1,333 1,399. 1,469 on on on on
N 0 on MARD
on .00 00 .50 reduction reduction reduction reduction
reduction
reduction of of of of
of
of postharve postharve postharve postharve
postharve
postharve st losses st losses st losses st losses
st losses
st losses conducted conducted conducted conducted
conducted
. . . .
.
Promote 10,000 Number 5,000 5,000
the use of small of small small small
hermetic holder holder holder holder
storage farmers farmers farmers farmers
bags to were promoted were were
10,000 539.1 promoted for food promoted promoted
N 0 514 MARD
small 8 for food preservati for food for food
holder preservati on in the preservati preservati
farmers on in the use of on in the on in the
for food use of hermetic use of use of
preservati hermetic storage hermetic hermetic
on storage bags. storage storage
67
bags. bags. bags.
10,000 4,000 3,000 3,000

Create Number
Number Number Number Number
awareness of farmers
of farmers of farmers of farmers of farmers
to 10,000 awareness
awareness awareness awareness awareness
farmers on the use
on the use on the use on the use on the use
on the use of Aflasafe
of Aflasafe of Aflasafe of Aflasafe of Aflasafe
of Aflasafe to
to to to to
to N 0 86 90.3 94.82 minimize MARD
minimize minimize minimize minimize
minimize aflatoxin
aflatoxin aflatoxin aflatoxin aflatoxin
aflatoxin contamina
contamina contamina contamina contamina
contamina tion along
tion along tion along tion along tion along
tion along the value
the value the value the value the value
the value chain
chain chain chain chain
chain created.
created. created. created. created.
Provide 6 6 Number Number 3 Number 3 Number
modern modern of modern modern modern
drying drying drying drying drying
slabs for slabs for slabs for slabs for slabs for
women women women women women
groups to groups to groups to groups to groups to
present 5,400. 5,670 present present present present
N 0 MARD
post- 00 .00 post- post- post- post-
harvest harvest harvest harvest harvest
losses, losses, losses, losses, losses,
enhance enhance enhance enhance enhance
quality quality quality quality quality
and and and and and
nutrient nutrient nutrient nutrient nutrient
68
retention retention retention retention retention
provided. provided. provided. provided.
Grains
availabili
Grains Grains Grains
Number ty is Depart
90% of supply to supply to supply to
of months about ment
total meet 80% meet 85% meet 90%
that grains 75% of of
Procurem grains of total of total of total
are total Produc
ent of demand demand demand demand 2.2
O 131,3 144,1 193,1 sufficientl demand e and
grains from from from from .1
03.00 11.00 42.00 y available (i.e. Pest
(MT) Niger Niger Niger Niger
in the grains Control
State as a State and State and State and
market in not (MARD
2.2 whole met Nigeria as Nigeria as Nigeria as
a year available )
Buffer a whole a whole a whole
all year
Stock
round)
Depart
86no of Number 26no of 27no of 31no of ment
trucks of trucks trucks to trucks to trucks to of
Transport
used in used for be used be used be used Produc
ation of 2.2
O 5,092 5,589. 7,482 transporta transporta transporta transporta transporta e and
grains .2
.00 00 .00 tion of tion of tion of tion of tion of Pest
(Trucks)
assorted assorted assorted assorted assorted Control
grains grains grains grains grains (MARD
)
69
180lts of
DDVP,135
tins of 60lts of
phosphate DDVP,45ti Depart
60lts of 60lts of
gas, ns of ment
Quantity DDVP,45ti DDVP,45ti
100no phosphate of
Chemicals of ns of ns of
ballets gas, Produc
procured chemicals phosphate phosphate 2.2
O 2,546 2,794. 3,741 and 100no e and
for grains procured gas and gas and .3
.00 00 .00 3000no ballets Pest
storage forgrains 1000no 1000no
Purdue and Control
storage PICS to be PICS to be
Improved 1000no (MARD
procured procured
Cowpea PICS to be )
Storage procured
(PICS)
procured
Depart
1no flag 1no flag 1no flag ment
3no flag Number
off off off of
off of flag off
Flag off of ceremonie ceremonie ceremonie Produc
ceremonie ceremonie 2.2
sales of O 5,092 5,589. 7,483 s of sales s of sales s of sales e and
s of sales s of sales .4
grains .00 00 .00 of grains of grains of grains Pest
of grains of grains
to be to be to be Control
conducted conducted
conducted conducted conducted (MARD
)
Depart
ment
Number 1no public 1no public 1no public
3noPublic of
Public of Public sales/distr sales/distr sales/distr
sales/distr Produc
sales/distr sales/distr ibution of ibution of ibution of 2.2
O 2,546 2,794. 3,741 ibution of e and
ibution of ibution of grains to grains to grains to .5
.00 00 .00 grains Pest
grains grains be be be
conducted Control
conducted conducted conducted conducted
(MARD
)
70
Depart
ment
Quantity Quantity Quantity of
Procurem Quantity
Agro- of agro- of agro- of agro- Produc
ent of of agro- 2.2
O 5,092 5,589. 7,483 chemicals chemicals chemicals chemicals e and
agro- chemicals .6
.00 00 .00 procured to be to be to be Pest
chemicals. procured
procured procured procured Control
(MARD
)
Niger
State
N60,000,0 N60,000,0 N60,000,0 Agricult
N180,000, Amount N40,000,
00 to be 00 to be 00 to be ural
000 paid paid as 000 paid
paid as paid as paid as and
as state state as state
FADAMA state state state Mecha
counterpa counterpa counterp
IIIAF State counterpa counterpa counterpa 3.1 nizatio
O 76,38 83,83 112,2 rt rt art
Contributi rt rt rt .1 n
3.1 2.00 2.00 39.00 contributi contributi contribut
on contributi contributi contributi Develo
Agricult on for on for ion for
on for on for on for pment
ural FADAMA FADAMA FADAMA
FADAMA FADAMA FADAMA Authori
technol III AF III AF III
III III III ty
ogy
(NAMD
generati
A)
on and
Ministr
transfer Amount N10,000,
238,200,0 79,400,00 79,400,00 79,400,00 y of
paid as 000 paid
00 paid as 0 paid as 0 paid as 0 paid as Agricult
VCDP state as state
counterpa counterpa counterpa counterpa ure and
State counterpa counterp 3.1
101,0 110,9 148,5 rt rt rt rt Rural
contributi rt art .2
79.00 38.00 29.00 contributi contributi contributi contributi Develo
on contributi contribut
on for on for on for on for pment
on for ion for
VCDP VCDP VCDP VCDP (MARD
VCDP VCDP
)
71
Niger
State
Agricult
N30,000,0 N30,000,0 N30,000,0
N90,000,0 ural
Amount 00 to be 00 to be 00 to be
00 paid as and
paid for paid as paid as paid as
RIPMAPP state Mecha
sustainabil state state state
State sustainabil 3.1 nizatio
O 73,83 81,03 108,4 ity and counterpa counterpa counterpa
Contributi ity and .3 n
6.00 8.00 97.00 expansion rt rt rt
on expansion Develo
for contributi contributi contributi
of pment
RIPMAPP on for on for on for
RIPMAPP Authori
RIPMAPP RIPMAPP RIPMAPP
ty
(NAMD
A)
Niger
State
Agricult
N50,000,0 N50,000,0 N50,000,0
National N150,000, Amount ural
00 to be 00 to be 00 to be
Programm 000 paid paid as and
paid as paid as paid as
e for Food as state state Mecha
state state state
Security counterpa counterpa 3.1 nizatio
O 95,22 104,4 139,9 counterpa counterpa counterpa
(NPFS), rt rt .4 n
3.00 84.00 24.00 rt rt rt
State contributi contributi Develo
contributi contributi contributi
Contributi on for on for pment
on for on for on for
on NPFS NPFS Authori
NPFS NPFS NPFS
ty
(NAMD
A)
30,000,00 Amount 10,000,00 10,000,00 10,000,00 Niger
State
0 paid as paid as 0 to be 0 to be 0 to be State
contributi
state state paid as paid as paid as Agricult
on for
contributi contributi state state state ural
KOICA
on for on for contributi contributi contributi 3.1 and
modern 25,46 27,94 37,41
modern modern on for on for on for .5 Mecha
Rice 1.00 4.00 8.00
Rice Rice modern modern modern nizatio
Processing
Processing Processing Rice Rice Rice n
complex
complex complex Processing Processing Processing Develo
project
project project complex complex complex pment
72
project project project Authori
ty
(NAMD
A)
66,000,00 66,000,00 66,000,00 Niger

198,000,0 Amount
0 to be 0 to be 0 to be State
00 paid as paid as
paid as paid as paid as Agricult
state state
Agricultur state state state ural
contributi contributi
al contributi contributi contributi and
on for on for
Transform on for on for on for Mecha
agricultur agricultur
ation agricultur agricultur agricultur 3.1 nizatio
O 84,02 90,30 91,59 al al
Agenda al al al .6 n
0.00 1.00 1.00 Transform Transform
Support Transform Transform Transform Develo
ation ation
Program ation ation ation pment
Agenda Agenda
Phase –I Agenda Agenda Agenda Authori
Support Support
Support Support Support ty
Program Program
Program Program Program (NAMD
Phase –I Phase –I
Phase –I Phase –I Phase –I A)
Niger
State
Agricult
N1, 1,710,00 ural
Agricultur Number
742,580nu 0 1,800,000 1,910,000 2,000,000 and
al of
mber of farmers farmers to farmers to farmers to Mecha
Technolog Farmers
farmers adopted adopt adopt adopt 3.1 nizatio
y O 386,8 424,5 568,4 Adopting
adopted improve improved improved improved .6 n
Generatio 28.00 61.00 22.00 improved
improved d technologi technologi technologi Develo
n and Technolog
technologi technolo es es es pment
Transfer ies
es. gies Authori
ty
(NAMD
A)
73
Niger
State
Agricult
ural
Number and
Provision
Productive of Productive Productive Productive Mecha
of
infrastruct Productive infrastruct infrastruct infrastruct 3.1 nizatio
productive O 48,39 53,11 71,11
ure infrastruct ure to be ure to be ure to be .7 n
infrastruct 8.00 9.00 9.00
provided ure provided provided provided Develo
ure
provided pment
Authori
ty
(NAMD
A)
Depart
ment
Kuta farm
Kuta farm of
institute
instituted Number Agricult
Up- up-graded
up-graded of farm 1no farm ural
grading of to 3.2
O 16,54 18,16 24,31 to instituted institute Service
Kuta farm Agricultur .1
9.00 4.00 9.00 Agricultur up-graded available and
institute al Services
al Training at Kuta Linkage
3.2 Technical
Center s
Agricult Center
(MARD
ural
)
manpo
Depart
wer Skill
Tegina ment
develop Tegina
farm of
ment farm
Up- Number institute Agricult
instituted
grading of of farm 1no farm up-graded ural
up-graded 3.2
Tegina O 16,54 18,16 24,31 instituted institute to Service
to .2
farm 9.00 4.00 9.00 up-graded available Agricultur and
Agricultur
institute at Tegina al Services Linkage
al Training
Technical s
Center
Center (MARD
)
74
Depart
Nasko ment
Nasko
farm of
farm
Up- Number institute Agricult
instituted
grading of of farm 1no farm up-graded ural
up-graded 3.2
Nasko O 16,54 18,16 24,31 instituted institute to Service
to .3
farm 9.00 4.00 9.00 up-graded available Agricultur and
Agricultur
institute at Nasko al Services Linkage
al Training
Technical s
Center
Center (MARD
)
Depart
ment
Bida farm
Bida farm of
institute
instituted Number Bida farm Bida farm Agricult
Up- up-graded
up-graded of farm 1no farm institute institute ural
grading of to 3.2
O 51,55 56,58 75,76 to instituted institute up-graded up-graded Service
Bida farm Agricultur .4
8.00 7.00 1.00 Agricultur up-graded available to be to be and
institute al Services
al Training at Bida matained matained Linkage
Technical
Center s
Center
(MARD
)
Niger
State
Agricult
7 ural
Number
additional 4 nos and
of Skill
Establishm Skill skill 4 skill 3 skill Mecha
Developm
ent of skill Developm develop developm developm 3.2 nizatio
O 25,46 27,94 37,41 ent
developm ent ment ent ent .5 n
1.00 4.00 3.00 Centres
ent centre Centres centres centers centers Develo
establishe
establishe available pment
d
d Authori
ty
(NAMD
A)
75
Niger
State
Agricult
Procurem
ural
ent of 9no
and
Global 9no GPS Number
3no GPS 3no GPS 3no GPS Mecha
Positionin equipmen of GPS
3no GPS equipmen equipmen equipmen 3.2 nizatio
g System O 1,489 1,635. 4,964 t Procured equipmen
available t to be t to be t to be .6 n
(GPS) .00 00 .00 for 3 t
procured procured procured Develo
equipmen zones purchased
pment
t for 3
Authori
zones
ty
(NAMD
A)
Niger
State
Agricult
50% of 60% of 80% of 100% of
100% ural
% of farmers farmers in farmers in farmers in
farmers in and
Fertilizer farmers in Niger Niger Niger Niger
Niger Mecha
procurem having State State to State to State to
1,861 2,043, 2,769 state have 3.3 nizatio
ent and O access to have have have have
,843. 432.0 ,180. access to .1 n
distributio quality access to access to access to access to
00 0 00 quality Develo
n agricultur quality quality quality quality
3.3 agricultur pment
al inputs agricultu agricultur agricultur agricultur
Agricult al inputs Authori
re inputs e inputs e inputs e inputs
ural ty
Inputs (NAMD
distribut A)
ion. Depart
ment
1,500,00
Additional of
Number 0
Conduct 750,000 250,000 250,000 250,000 Plannin
of farmers farmers
of farmers farmers farmers to farmers to farmers to 3.3 g
O 56,01 61,47 82,30 registered registere
registratio registered be be be .2 Researc
3.00 7.00 8.00 under the d in 274
n under the registered registered registered h and
GES wards of
GES Statisti
the State
cs(MAR
D)
76
Niger
State
Attend
Agricult
eight
ural
Planning,
1no and
Monitorin Number 8no PM&E 8no PM&E 8no PM&E
8no PM&E PM&E Mecha
g and ofPM&E workshop workshop workshop
workshop worksho 3.4 nizatio
Evaluation O 0 54,74 60,08 80,43 workshop /Seminars /Seminars /Seminars
/Seminars p/Semin .1 n
(PM&E) 0.00 0.00 7.00 /Seminars to be to be to be
attended ars Develo
workshop attended attended attended attended
attended pment
/Seminars
Authori
by
ty
PM&Estaff
(NAMD
A)
Niger
State
Agricult
3.4 ural
Agricult Number 1no Pre- 1no Pre- 1no Pre- and
3no Pre- 1no Pre-
ural Conduct of Pre- season season season Mecha
season season
surveys of Pre- season training to training to training to 3.4 nizatio
O 0 1,912 2,096. 2,809 training training
season training be be be .2 n
.00 00 .00 Conducte Conduct
training Conducte Conducte Conducte Conducte Develo
d ed
d d d d pment
Authori
ty
(NAMD
A)
Niger
State
Agricult
ural
Number 2no APS 2 No APS 2 No APS 2 No APS
Conduct 6 6 nosAPS 3.4 and
O 2,037 2,234. 2,993 of APS conducte to be to be to be
nos APS conduct .3 Mecha
.00 00 .00 conducted d in 2014 conducted conducted conducted
nizatio
n
Develo
pment
77
Authori
ty
(NAMD
A)
Niger
State
Agricult
ural
and
12 no Mecha
Conduct 36 Number 12 MPS to 12 MPS to 12 MPS to
MPS 3.4 nizatio
36 O 637 699 935 nosMPS of MPS be be be
conducte .4 n
nosMPS conducted conducted conducted conducted conducted
d in 2014 Develo
pment
Authori
ty
(NAMD
A)
Niger
State
Agricult
ural
12no and
Number 12 No. of 12 No. of 12 No. of
Conduct 36 no. Weather Mecha
of Weather Weather Weather
Weather Weather Surveys 3.4 nizatio
O 637 699 935 Weather Surveys to Surveys to Surveys to
Surveys Surveys last .5 n
Surveys be be be
(WS) conducted conducte Develo
d in 2014 pment
Authori
ty
(NAMD
A)
78
Niger
State
Agricult
Number 9no 9no
18 nos ural
Establish of computeri computeri
computeri and
9nos computeri sed sed
sed Mecha
computeri sed meteorolo meteorolo
meteorolo No one 3.4 nizatio
sed O 0 6,111 6,707. 8,979 meteorolo gical gical
gical available .6 n
meteorolo .00 00 .00 gical stations to stations to
stations Develo
gical stations be be
establishe pment
stations establishe establishe establishe
d Authori
d d d
ty
(NAMD
A)
Niger
State
Agricult
Procurem
ural
ent of
and
survey Assorted Assorted Assorted
Assorted Mecha
equipmen survey survey survey survey
survey 3.4 nizatio
t weighing O 0 1,910 2,099. 2,806 equipmen equipmen equipmen equipmen
equipmen .7 n
scale, .00 00 .00 t procured t to be t to be t to be
t procured Develo
Triangle procured procured procured
pment
rope and
Authori
GPS
ty
(NAMD
A)
Conduct Niger
impact State
studies on 1no 1no 1no Agricult
2no Number
Commerci impact impact impact ural
impact impact
al studies on studies on studies on 3.4 and
12,73 13,97 18,70 studies on studies on
Agricultur CACS to CACS to CACS to .8 Mecha
0.00 2.00 7.00 CACS CACS
e and be be be nizatio
conducted conducted
Credit conducted conducted conducted n
Scheme Develo
(CACS) pment
79
Authori
ty
(NAMD
A)
Niger
State
Agricult
3no Number 1no 1no 1no
Conduct ural
impact impact impact impact impact
impact and
studies on studies on studies on studies on studies on
studies on Mecha
Fertilizer Fertilizer Fertilizer Fertilizer Fertilizer
Fertilizer 3.4 nizatio
12,73 13,97 18,70 Subsidy Subsidy Subsidy Subsidy Subsidy
Subsidy on .9 n
0.00 2.00 7.00 on Crop on Crop on Crop on Crop on Crop
Crop Develo
Performan Performan Performan Performan Performan
Performan pment
ce ce ce to be ce to be ce to be
ce Authori
conducted conducted conducted conducted conducted
ty
(NAMD
A)
Niger
State
Agricult
ural
1no 1no 1no and
1no Number
Conduct impact impact impact Mecha
impact impact
impact studies on studies on studies on 3.4 nizatio
6,365 6,986. 10,74 studies on studies on
studies on NPFS to NPFS to NPFS to .10 n
.00 00 1.00 NPFS NPFS
NPFS be be be Develo
conducted conducted
conducted conducted conducted pment
Authori
ty
(NAMD
A)
80
Niger
State
1no
Number 1no Work 1no Work 1no Work Agricult
Prepare 3no Work Work
Work plan plan and plan and plan and ural
Work plan plan and plan and
and Budget, Budget, Budget, and
and Budget, Budget,
Budget, periodic periodic periodic Mecha
Budget, periodic periodic
periodic implemen implemen implemen 3.4 nizatio
periodic 0 0 509 559 776 implemen impleme
implemen tation tation tation .11 n
implemen tation ntation
tation progress progress progress Develo
tation progress progress
progress reports to reports to reports to pment
progress reports reports
reports be be be Authori
reports prepared prepared
prepared prepared prepared prepared ty
in 2014
(NAMD
A)
Niger
State
Agricult
Conduct
1no ural
Farm Crop Number
1no Farm Farm 1no Farm 1no Farm 1no Farm and
Budget/Fa of Farm
Crop Crop Crop Crop Crop Mecha
rm Crop
Budget/FA Budget/F Budget/FA Budget/FA Budget/FA 3.4 nizatio
Managem 0 0 127 140 187 Budget/FA
MAS AMAS MASto be MASto be MASto be .12 n
ent MAS
Conducte Conduct Conducte Conducte Conducte Develo
Advisory Conducte
d ed in d d d pment
services d
2014 Authori
(FAMAS)
ty
(NAMD
A)
Depart
Number 1no state- 1no state- 1no state-
Collection No rural ment
1no rural of rural wide rural wide rural wide rural
of state- infrastru of Rural
infrastruct infrastruct infrastruct infrastruct infrastruct 3.4
wide rural 0 0 17,12 18,79 25,29 cture Develo
ure data ure data ure data ure data ure data .13
infrastruct 2.00 2.00 8.00 data pment
collected collected to be to be to be
ure data available (MARD
state-wide collected collected collected
)
81
Niger
4.1 State
Rural Agricult
N750,000, N250,000, N250,000, N250,000,
feeder ural
000 paid Amount 000 state 000 state 000 state
roads 68,900,0 and
as state paid as and LGA and LGA and LGA
and RAMP II 00 paid Mecha
and LGA counterpa counterpa counterpa counterpa
river State in 2014 4.1 nizatio
0 0 159,1 174,6 233,8 counterpa rt rt rt rt
crossing contributi as state .1 n
29.00 10.00 31.00 rt contributi contributi contributi contributi
s on contribut Develo
contributi on for on to be on to be on to be
construc ion pment
on for RAMPII paid for paid for paid for
tion and Authori
RAMPII RAMPII RAMPII RAMPII
rehabilit ty
ation (NAMD
A)
Depart
ment
of
Number 9 AEHCS 6 AEHCS 6 AEHCS
Rehabilita 21AEHCS 5no. of Engine
of AEHCS to be to be to be 4.2
4.2 tion of 21 O 57,28 62,87 84,17 rehabilitat AEHCS in ering
rehabilitat rehabilitat rehabilitat rehabilitat .1
Farm AEHCS 6.00 4.00 9.00 ed place (mecha
ed ed ed ed
machine nical )
ry, (MARD
construc )
tion Depart
equipm ment
15units
ent 5units of 5units of 5units of of
Rehabilita 15units of Number non-
acquisiti tractor to tractor to tractor to Engine
tion of tractor of tractor functioni 4.2
on and O 114,5 125,7 168,3 be be be ering
15units of rehabilitat rehabilitat ng .2
refurbis 73.00 19.00 59.00 rehabilitat rehabilitat rehabilitat (mecha
tractors. ed ed tractor
hment, ed ed ed nical )
available
and (MARD
rehabilit )
ation of Number Depart
Purchase Workshop Workshop
AEHCs of ment
of tools and tools and
workshop 4.2 of
workshop O 35,30 38,75 51,88 equipmen equipmen
tools and .3 Engine
equipmen 6.00 0.00 1.00 t t to be
equipmen ering
t and tools purchased purchased
t (mecha
82
purchased nical )
(MARD
)
Depart
1no 1no
1no ment
Fencing of Number unfence Minna
Minna of
Minna of Agro- d Agro-
Agro- Engine
Agro- mechanic mechani mechanic 4.2
O 32,89 36,10 49,72 mechanic ering
mechanica al cal al .4
5.00 4.00 5.00 al (mecha
l workshop worksho workshop
workshop nical )
workshop fenced p to be
fenced. (MARD
available fenced.
)
Depart
ment
Constructi
Number Gate of
on of a 1 Gate
of gate house to Engine
gate house 4.2
1,418 1,557. 2,084 houses be ering
house for constructe .5
.00 00 .00 constructe constructe (mecha
Minna d
d d nical)
workshop
(MARD
)
Person
10no 10no nel
Renovatio 20no Number
5.1 offices to offices to manag
n and offices offices
Adminis be be 5.1 ement
equipping N 1,404 1,541. 2,064 renovated renovated
tration, renovated renovated .1 depart
of 20no .00 00 .00 and and
Finance and and ment
offices equipped equipped
/Accoun equipped equipped (MARD
ts, )
Human Person
Purchase Office
Resourc 10no 10no 10no nel
of office furniture Number
es & offices to offices to offices to 5.1 manag
furniture N 2,126 2,333. 4,512 Purchased of offices
Training be be be .2 ement
for 20no .00 00 .00 for 20no furnished
furnished furnished furnished depart
offices offices
ment
83
(MARD
)
Maintena
nce and
upgrading
Depart
of
Maintena Maintena ment
Agricultur
Agricultur nce and nce and of
al Data Number 1 number
al Data 1 No upgrading upgrading plannin
Clinic to of agro-data
Clinic Agricultu of of g
Niger Agricultur clinic to 5.2
O 56,01 61,47 82,33 maintaine re Data Agricultur Agricultur Researc
State al Data be .1
3.00 7.00 6.00 d and Clinic al Data al Data h and
Agricultur Clinic establishe
upgraded available Clinic to Clinic to Statisti
al available d
5.2 to NSAMIS be be cs
Managem
Planning conducted conducted (MARD
ent
Researc )
Informatio
h&
n System
Statistic
(NSAMIS)
s (PRS)
Payment Depart
of N10 ment
1no 1no 1no
consultanc 3no Number million of
consultan consultan consultan
y services consultan of paid to plannin
cy service cy service cy service
NIRSAL cy services consultan NSRIC in g
to be to be to be 5.2
and Niger O 384,3 421,8 564,8 provided cy services 2013 and Researc
provided provided provided .2
State Rice 99.00 33.00 53.00 for provided 5million h and
each for each for each for
Investmen NIRSA&,N for NIRSAL paid in Statisti
NIRSAL& NIRSAL & NIRSAL &
t SRIC & NSRIC 2014 for cs
NSRIC NSRIC NSRIC
Consortiu Jatopoha (MARD
m (NSRIC) )
84
Quarterl
Depart
y
Number ment
Monitori Quarterly Quarterly Quarterly
Quarterly 4no of of
ng & monitorin monitorin monitorin
Monitorin monitorin monitorin plannin
Evaluatio g and g and g and
g& g and g and g
n of evaluation evaluation evaluation 5.2
Evaluation O 13,34 14,64 19,74 evaluation evaluation Researc
agricultu agricultur agricultur agricultur .3
of 1.00 2.00 3.00 agricultur agricultur h and
re e project e project e project
agricultur e project e project Statisti
project to be to be to be
e project conducted carried cs
last conducted conducted conducted
out (MARD
conducte
)
d in 2010
Depart
ment
of
Conduct Number One (1) One (1) One (1) plannin
Research
three (3) of impact Impact Impact Impact g
and 5.2
E 12,99 14,12 19,09 impact assessmen assessmen assessmen assessmen Researc
Consultan .9
3.00 3.00 3.00 assessmen t studies t studies t studies t studies h and
cy
t studies conducted conducted conducted conducted Statisti
cs
(MARD
)
Depart
ment
Procurem of
3number Number 4 1 number 1 number number 4
ent of 1 plannin
4 WD WD 4 WD 4 WD WD
number 4 g
Toyota Toyota Toyota Toyota Toyota 5.2
WD N 9,766 10,71 15,87 Researc
Hilux Hilux Hilux Hilux Hilux .10
Toyota .00 2.00 7.00 h and
vehicle vehicle vehicle vehicle vehicle
Hilux Statisti
procured procured procured procured procured
vehicle cs
(MARD
)
85
12 number Number of 4 number 4 number 4 number
Quarterly
campaigns campaigns campaigns campaigns campaigns
campaigns
on the on the on the on the on the
on the
consumptio consumptio consumptio consumptio consumptio
consumptio
n of n of n of n of n of
n of
Vitamin A, Vitamin A, Vitamin A, Vitamin A, Vitamin A,
Vitamin A,
3,082. 3,236.1 3,397. and and and and and 5.3.
and MARD
00 0 91 micronutrie micronutrie micronutrie micronutrie micronutrie 1
micronutrie
nt rich nt rich nt rich nt rich nt rich
nt rich
foods to foods to foods to foods to foods to
foods to
60,000 60,000 20,000 20,000 20,000
60,000
Households Households Households Households Households
Households
in 6 LGAs in 6 LGAs in 6 LGAs in 6 LGAs in 6 LGAs
in 6 LGAs
N 0 undertaken undertaken undertaken undertaken undertaken
Promote 500 Number of 250 250
productio Number production Number Number
small scale of nutrient small scale small scale
n of
farmer rich farmer farmer
5.3 nutrient
groups in 6 varieties groups in 6 groups in 6
Nutritio rich LGAs (orange LGAs LGAs
n varieties promoted flesh sweet promoted promoted
Security (orange of potato, of of
improve flesh production high production production
ment sweet of nutrient protein of nutrient of nutrient
potato, rich maize, rich rich
high varieties cassava and varieties varieties
(orange cowpea) (orange (orange
protein
9,275. 9,738.7 flesh sweet through flesh sweet flesh sweet 5.3.
maize, 0 MARD
00 5 potato, distribution potato, potato, 1
cassava high of certified high high
and protein seeds/cutti protein protein
cowpea) maize, ngs of maize, maize,
through cassava and vitamin A & cassava and cassava and
distributio cowpea) micronutrie cowpea) cowpea)
n of through nt enriched through through
certified distribution food crops distribution distribution
of certified to 500 of certified of certified
seeds/cutt
seeds/cutti small scale seeds/cutti seeds/cutti
ings of
ngs of farmer ngs of ngs of
vitamin A vitamin A & groups in 6 vitamin A & vitamin A &
& micronutrie LGAs micronutrie micronutrie
micronutri N 0 nt enriched promoted. nt enriched nt enriched
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ent food crops. food crops. food crops.
enriched
food crops
to 500
small scale
farmer
groups in
6 LGAs
Number of
175 TOT for 175 TOT for
TOT for TOT for
Agricultural Agricultural
175 Agricultural
extension extension
Agricultural extension
officers on officers on
extension officers on
production production
officers on production
6,466. of vitamin of vitamin 5.3.
production 0 0 of vitamin MARD
75 A& A& 1
of vitamin A&
micronutrie micronutrie
A& micronutrie
nt enriched nt enriched
micronutrie nt enriched
food crops food crops
nt enriched food crops
were were
food crops were
undertaken undertaken
N 0 undertaken
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a. Provide
starter
packs for
30 fruits 30 Number Number of 10 Number 10 Number 10 Number
farmers of starter starter of starter of starter of starter
groups (600 packs for packs for packs for packs for packs for
farmers) in fruits and fruits and fruits and fruits and fruits and
3 zones vegetable vegetable vegetable vegetable vegetable
`b. Provide farmers farmers farmers farmers farmers
starter groups groups groups groups groups
2,406. 2,526.3 2,652. 5.3.
packs for each (1200 each (1200 each (400 each (400 each (400 MARD
00 0 62 1
30 farmers) in farmers) in farmers) in farmers) in farmers) in
vegetable 3 zones 3 zones 3 zones 3 zones 3 zones
farmers (including (including (including (including (including
groups (600 women for women for women for women for women for
farmers) in HH HH HH HH HH
3 zones gardening) gardening) gardening) gardening) gardening)
(including Provided Provided Provided Provided Provided
women for
HH
gardening) N 0
Promote Number of
120 women 40 women 40 women 40 women
the women
groups groups groups groups
production groups
promoted promoted promoted promoted
of small promoted
in the in the in the in the
ruminant in the
production production production production
(sheep & production
3,822. 4,013.1 4,213. of small of small of small of small 5.3.
Goat) by of small MARD
00 0 76 ruminant ruminant ruminant ruminant 1
120 women ruminant
(sheep & (sheep & (sheep & (sheep &
groups (sheep &
Goat) and Goat) and Goat) and Goat) and
through Goat) and
of starter of starter of starter of starter
provision of of starter
packs packs packs packs
starter packs
provided provided provided provided
packs. N 0 provided
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Provide
2,000 2,000
support to Number of
number number
prepare copies of
copies of copies of
2,000 brochure
brochure brochure
copies of on 5 value
on 5 value on 5 value
brochure chain
1,050. chain chain 5.3.
on 5 value commoditi MARD
00 commoditi commoditi 1
chain es for
es for es for
commoditi nutritional/
nutritional/ nutritional/
es for health
health health
nutritional/ benefits
benefits benefits
health prepared
prepared. prepared.
benefits. N 0
200 100 100
Number of
Provide 200 number of number of number of
smoking
smoking smoking smoking smoking
kilns to
kilns to kilns to kilns to kilns to
2,036. 2,036. clusters of 5.3.
clusters of clusters of clusters of clusters of MARD
50 50 small-scale 1
small-scale small-scale small-scale small-scale
women fish
women fish women fish women fish women fish
farmers
farmers farmers farmers farmers
provided
N 0 provided. provided. provided.
Provide 2000 Number of 1000 1000
2000 Number of improved Number of Number of
improved improved tree crop improved improved
tree crop tree crop planting tree crop tree crop
planting planting materials planting planting
materials materials (Oil palm, materials materials
(Oil palm, (Oil palm, mango, (Oil palm, (Oil palm,
mango, mango, oranges mango, mango,
oranges oranges cashew etc) oranges oranges
cashew etc) 1,226.0 1,287. cashew etc) to 50 cashew etc) cashew etc) 5.3.
MARD
to 50 0 30 to 50 farmer to 50 to 50 1
farmer farmer groups per farmer farmer
groups per groups per zones groups per groups per
zones zones across the zones zones
across the across the State to across the across the
State to State to promote State to State to
promote promote food & promote promote
food & food & nutrition food & food &
nutrition nutrition security nutrition nutrition
security N 0 security provided. security security
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provided. provided. provided.
Conduct bi- 18 Number Number of 6 Number 6 Number 6 Number

monthly bi-monthly bi-monthly bi-monthly bi-monthly bi-monthly
advocacy advocacy advocacy advocacy advocacy advocacy
visit to visit to visit to visit to visit to visit to
relevant relevant relevant relevant relevant relevant
financial financial financial financial financial financial
institutions institutions institutions institutions institutions institutions
to promote to promote to promote to promote to promote to promote
increased increased increased increased increased increased
access to access to access to access to access to access to
Micro - Micro - Micro - Micro - Micro - Micro -
Credit 1,650. 1,732.5 1,819. Credit Credit Credit Credit Credit 5.3.
MARD
facilities to 00 0 13 facilities to facilities to facilities to facilities to facilities to 1
farmers at farmers at farmers at farmers at farmers at farmers at
single digit single digit single digit single digit single digit single digit
interest interest interest interest interest interest
rate rate rate rate rate rate
especially especially especially especially especially especially
for Women for Women for Women for Women for Women for Women
farmer farmer farmer farmer farmer farmer
groups to groups to groups to groups to groups to groups to
expand expand expand expand expand expand
farm farm farm farm farm farm
operations N 0 operations operations operations operations operations
90
conducted conducted conducted conducted conducted
12 Number Number of 4 Number 4 Number 4 Number

Conduct
quarterly quarterly quarterly quarterly quarterly
quarterly
Advocacy Advocacy Advocacy Advocacy Advocacy
Advocacy
visit to visit to visit to visit to visit to
visit to
LGAs & LGAs & LGAs & LGAs & LGAs &
LGAs &
traditional traditional traditional traditional traditional
traditional
institution institution institution institution institution
institution
for land for land for land for land for land
for land
developme developme developme developme developme
developme 5.3.
450 472.5 496.13 nt/clearing nt/clearing nt/clearing nt/clearing nt/clearing MARD
nt/clearing 1
to to to to to
to
increased increased increased increased increased
increased
women women women women women
women
access to access to access to access to access to
access to
land for land for land for land for land for
land for
agricultural agricultural agricultural agricultural agricultural
agricultural
activities in activities in activities in activities in activities in
activities in
10 LGAs 10 LGAs 10 LGAs 10 LGAs 10 LGAs
10 LGAs
N 0 conducted. conducted. conducted. conducted. conducted.
91
4 Number Number of 4 Number
Conduct
quarterly quarterly quarterly
quarterly
coordinatio coordinatio coordinatio
coordinatio
n meeting n meeting n meeting
n meeting
on early on early on early
on early
warning warning warning
warning
mechanism mechanism mechanism 5.3. MARD/
mechanism 400 s to cope s to cope s to cope 1 MLFD
s to cope
with food with food with food
with food
emergencie emergencie emergencie
emergencie
s at s at s at
s at
community community community
community
level level level
level
N 0 conducted. conducted. conducted.
Review Review Review
Modules Modules Modules
Review
in in in
Modules
Agricultur Agricultur Agricultur
5.4 in
e, e, e,
school Agricultur
Livestock Livestock Livestock
based e,
4,440 and and and 5.5
program Livestock N 0 0 MARD
.00 fisheries fisheries fisheries .1
for and
training to training to training to
improve fisheries
improve improve improve
d training to
nutrition nutrition nutrition
improve
were were were
nutrition
undertake undertake undertake
n n n
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Promote Promote Promote Promote Promote
and and and and and
Promote
support support support support support
and
dietary dietary dietary dietary dietary
support
diversity diversity diversity diversity diversity
dietary
through through through through through
diversity
increased increased increased increased increased
through
productio productio productio productio productio
increased
1,012 1,063. 1,116 n and n and n and n and n and 5.5
productio N 0 0 MARD
.80 44 .61 consumpti consumpti consumpti consumpti consumpti .2
n and
on of on of on of on of on of
consumpti
locally locally locally locally locally
on of
available available available available available
locally
foods in foods in foods in foods in foods in
available
120 sites 120 sites 35 sites 40 sites 45 sites
foods in
were were were were were
120 sites.
undertake undertake undertake undertake undertake
n n n n n
Provide Agro Agro Agro Agro Agro
agro inputs to inputs to inputs to inputs to inputs to
inputs to strengthe strengthe strengthe strengthe strengthe
strengthe 1,973 2,072. 2,175 n 200 n 200 n 50 n 70 n 80 5.5
N 0 0 MARD
n 200 .33 00 .60 school school school school school .3
school farms- farms- farms- farms- farms-
farms- garden garden garden garden garden
garden provided provided provided provided provided
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10,000 Number 10,000
Review
number of State number
State food
State food food State food
recipes
recipes recipes recipes
book in
book in book in book in
line with
line with line with line with
the State
the State the State the State
Food
Food Food Food
Based
Based Based Based
Dietary
Dietary Dietary Dietary
Guidelines N 0 350 MARD
Guidelines Guidelines Guidelines
Print
6.1 Print Print Print
10,000
Promoti copies and copies and copies and
copies and
on of dissemina dissemina dissemina
dissemina
adequat te to te to te to
te to
e diet schools, schools, schools,
schools,
consum workplace workplace workplace
workplace
ption s and food s and food s and food
s and food
vendors vendors vendors
vendors
reviewed. reviewed. reviewed.
5000 1000 2000 2000
conduct Number
number number number number
trainings of food
food food food food
for 5000 vendors/p
vendors/p vendors/p vendors/p vendors/p
food 11,00 11,55 12,13 rocessors
N 0 rocessors rocessors rocessors rocessors MARD
vendors/p 2.38 2.49 0.12 for value
for value for value for value for value
rocessors addition
addition addition addition addition
for value trainings
trainings trainings trainings trainings
addition conducted
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Training 250 Number 120 130
of 250 Number of Number Number
Agricultur Agricultur Agricultur Agricultur Agricultur
al al al al al
extension extension extension extension extension
workers workers workers workers workers
and and and and and
Subject Subject Subject Subject Subject
3,314. 3,479
Matter N 0 Matter Matter Matter Matter MARD
6.2 22 .93
Specialists Specialists Specialists Specialists Specialists
Improvi
(SMS) on (SMS) on (SMS) on (SMS) on (SMS) on
ng
security security security security security
Manage
crisis & crisis & crisis & crisis & crisis &
ment of
nutrition nutrition nutrition nutrition nutrition
Food
in in in in in
Security
emergenc emergenc emergenc emergenc emergenc
Crisis
y y trained y trained. y trained y trained
and
250 Number 125 125
Nutritio Provide
Number of Number Number
n in mobility
Agricultur Agricultur Agricultur Agricultur
Emerge for 250
al al al al
ncy Agricultur
extension extension extension extension
al
workers workers workers workers
extension 31,25 32,81
N 0 and and and and MARD
workers 0.00 2.50
Subject Subject Subject Subject
and
Matter Matter Matter Matter
Subject
Specialists Specialists Specialists Specialists
Matter
(SMS) (SMS) (SMS) (SMS)
Specialists
mobility mobility mobility mobility
(SMS)
provided. provided. provided. provided.
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12 Number
4 Number 4 Number 4 Number
Number of
Conduct quarterly quarterly quarterly
quarterly quarterly
quarterly coordinati coordinati coordinati
coordinati coordinati
coordinati on on on
on on
on meeting meeting meeting
meeting meeting
meeting on early on early on early
on early on early
on early warning warning warning
warning warning
warning mechanis mechanis mechanis
mechanis mechanis
mechanis N 0 80 84 88.2 ms to ms to ms to MARD
ms to ms to
ms to cope with cope with cope with
cope with cope with
cope with food food food
food food
food emergenci emergenci emergenci
emergenci emergenci
emergenci es at es at es at
es at es at
es at communit communit communit
communit communit
communit y level y level y level
y level y level
y level conducted conducted conducted
conducted conducted
. . .
. .
12 Number
4 number 4 number 4 number
number of
Conduct quarterly quarterly quarterly
quarterly quarterly
6.3 quarterly advocacy advocacy advocacy
advocacy advocacy
Increasi advocacy visit to visit to visit to
visit to visit to
ng visit to LGAs and LGAs and LGAs and
LGAs and LGAs and
Availabil LGAs and communit communit communit
communit communit
ity, communiti 1,125 1,181. 1,240 ies for ies for ies for
ies for ies for MARD
Accessib es for .00 25 .31 rehabilitat rehabilitat rehabilitat
rehabilitat rehabilitat
ility and rehabilitat ion of the ion of the ion of the
ion of the ion of the
Afforda ion of the existing existing existing
existing existing
bility to existing rural road rural road rural road
rural road rural road
Food rural road network network network
network network
network conducted conducted conducted
conducted conducted
. . .
N 0 . .
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75km 24km 24km 27km
Number
Rehabilita number of number of number of number of
of rural
tion of rural rural rural rural
roads
rural roads roads roads roads
(3km per
roads (3km per (3km per (3km per (3km per
LGAs ) for
(3km per LGAs ) for LGAs ) for LGAs ) for LGAs ) for
52,50 55,12 57,88 easy
LGAs ) for easy easy easy easy MARD
0.00 5.00 1.25 transporta
easy transporta transporta transporta transporta
tion of
transporta tion of tion of tion of tion of
farm
tion of farm farm farm farm
produce
farm produce produce produce produce
rehabilitat
produce rehabilitat rehabilitat rehabilitat rehabilitat
ed.
N 0 ed. ed. ed. ed.
125km Number 42km 42km 41km
Constructi number of of new number of number of number of
on of new new rural rural new rural new rural new rural
rural roads roads roads roads roads
roads (5km per (5km per (5km per (5km per (5km per
(5km per LGAs ) for LGAs ) for LGAs ) for LGAs ) for LGAs ) for
125,0 131,2 137,8
LGAs) for easy easy easy easy easy MARD
00.00 50.00 12.50
easy transporta transporta transporta transporta transporta
transporta tion of tion of tion of tion of tion of
tion of farm farm farm farm farm
farm produce produce produce produce produce
produce constructe constructe constructe constructe constructe
N 0 d. d. d. d. d.
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Create Linkages Linkages Linkages
linkages between between between
between farmers farmers farmers
farmers and and and
and processors processors processors
processors to scale to scale to scale
to scale up up offtake up offtake up offtake
2,390.
offtake mechanis mechanis mechanis MARD
00
mechanis m for food m for food m for food
m for food crops to crops to crops to
crops to increase increase increase
increase availability availability availability
availability of food of food of food
of food products products products
products N 0 created created created
100 30 40 40
Number
Training Number Number Number Number
of seed
100 seed seed seed seed seed
entrepren
entrepren entrepren entrepren entrepren entrepren
13,41 14,08 14,78 eurs
eurs eurs eurs eurs eurs MARD
1.25 1.81 5.90 across
across across across across across
three
three three three three three
zones
zones zones zones zones zones
trained.
N 0 trained. trained. trained. trained.
12 Number 4 number 4 number 4 number
Conduct number of quarterly quarterly quarterly
quarterly quarterly quarterly advocacy advocacy advocacy
advocacy advocacy advocacy visit to visit to visit to
visit to visit to visit to LGAs and LGAs and LGAs and
LGAs and LGAs and LGAs and communit communit communit
communiti 1,125 1,181. 1,240 communit communit ies for ies for ies for
MARD
es for .00 25 .31 ies for ies for rehabilitat rehabilitat rehabilitat
rehabilitat rehabilitat rehabilitat ion of the ion of the ion of the
ion of the ion of the ion of the existing existing existing
existing existing existing rural road rural road rural road
rural road rural road rural road network network network
network network network conducted conducted conducted
N 0 conducted conducted . . .
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. .
5,308
5,809, 7,662
Total ,694.
218.0 ,291.
01
51 58
Source: SPT’s analyses
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3.6 Justification
All the projects included in this MTSS (See Table 15) were taken through a scoring and
prioritization process in order to facilitate selection among them. Details of the scoring and
prioritization process are described in Section 3.2 while the scorecards of the ongoing, existing
and new projects are reported in Annex 7.
The projects selected fulfilled the requirements of the five criteria applied in the scoring and
prioritization exercise. The requirements are that: it is evident that the project is indeed ongoing
where applicable; the justification of the project is clear; impact of the project is commensurate
with the expected cost; the project is likely to be completed within the MTSS period (2017 –
2019); and the execution of the project is critical to the achievement of the Agricultural Sector’s
goals under the NSDBP, Vision 3:2020, Niger State’s MTDP and the SDGs.
The proposed projects were packaged to bring them within the indicative budget ceilings
provided by NSPC. Emphasis was on programmes’ outcomes to ensure that the projects retained
within the indicative budget ceilings will still be able to deliver the medium term outcomes of
the Agricultural Sector.
3.7 Results Framework (RF)

RF for this MTSS is defined in terms of output targets, outcome targets and appropriate KPI. A
programme produces an outcome while a project produces an output. A set of projects delivers
a programme; meaning that a set of outputs delivers an outcome. Targets are defined for both
the outcomes and outputs which become the results to be achieved through the
implementation of the MTSS.
For this MTSS, the outcomes deliverables and their targets are presented in Table 8 while the
outputs deliverables and their targets are presented in Table 15. These are what the 2017 –
2019 MTSS is expected to achieve and will be used for monitoring and performance evaluation
in the course of implementing the MTSS (See Chapter 5 on how these will be done).
3.8 Responsibilities and Operational Plan

The last column of Table 15 specifies the MDAs responsible for the implementation of the
respective projects. In other words, this column describes the organizational responsibilities for
implementing the MTSS.
An Operational Plan will be developed by the MDAs responsibilities for the execution of the
respective projects after this MTSS has been translated into budget and specific budgets have
been approved for the respective projects. The plan will set out the following information
among others:
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• Specific activities and tasks to be undertaken in executing each project;
• The person to perform or be responsible for the performance of the activities and tasks;
• When each activity or task will start and when it will finish;
• The deliverables after each activity or task has been completed;
• The reports to be prepared by the person responsible (e.g. progress report), periodicity
of the reports and the distribution of the reports; and
• Critical success factors for the performance of each activity or task.
Following the consideration and approval of the Operational Plan by the authorities of the
Agricultural Sector, the plan will become the main reference document for the actions to be
undertaken in the Sector in the medium term. The Operational Plan will also serve as a veritable
reference document for performance M&E.
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Chapter 4: Three-Year Expenditure Projections
4.1 The Process Used to Make Expenditure Projections

Careful costing of all projects being proposed in the Agricultural Sector’s MTSS was carried out in
order to effectively reconcile strategy with resource availability. The costing exercise was based
on the following:
• Past experience of the sector personnel and relevant members of the SPT regarding the
expenditure on the items being costed;
• Recent estimates or quotations received by the sector from contractors and vendors on
similar items;
• Survey based research, especially information derived from the MPS usually conducted
by the NAMDA; and
• Shadow Prices and best estimates of the cost of the items concerned.
The following assumptions were applied in the course of the costing:
• Where the items being costed is inflation adjusted, we have used 10% rate of inflation
per annum;
• NSPC has advised that a 5% annual increase should be applied to wage bill and 2% to
overhead; and
• Where the items being costed is import based, we have used the official exchange rates
as published by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
The following key rules of the thumb have also been applied in the course of the project costing:
• Reasonable minimum rule: reasonable minimum estimate of unit cost had been used
where applicable as well as reasonable minimum estimate of number of units required,
especially in relation to staffing levels and overheads;
• Project implementation phasing: cost of projects has been phased over a three-year
timeframe where applicable; and
• Recurrent cost implications of capital projects: recurrent costs of capital projects in outer
years were taken into account by way of maintenance and depreciation.
Annex 8 presents details of the costing.
4.2 Outline Expenditure Projections

In the approved 2016 budget, the ratio of recurrent (personnel and overhead) to capital budget
was 28:72. However, much of the capital budget was not released. As at May, l 2016, the ratio of
recurrent (personnel and overhead) to capital releases was 100:0 (See Table 10). In this rollover
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MTSS, the ratios of recurrent to capital expenditure proposals are: 25:75, 25:75 and 21:69 for
2018, 2019 and 2020 respectively.
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Chapter 5: Monitoring and Evaluation
5.1 Identifying Sources of Data against the RF

In view of the long list of targets in this MTSSRF (See Table 8 and Table 15), it is not possible to
specify the data to collect and sources of such data in order to measure progress towards the
achievement of all the targets in the RF. But all the outcomes and outputs targets specified in
Tables 8 and 15 are measurable and data for their measurement should be available.
Some hints in identifying the required data and data sources are as follows:
• The MDAs specified as being responsible for the respective projects in Table 15should be the
first point of contact for the required data and data sources. If the MDAs do not have the
data themselves, they are expected to know where to find them;
• The Niger State Bureau of Statistics (NSBS) should be helpful in identifying the sources of
relevant data; and
• The M&E Department of the NSPC and the M&E Departments of the constituent MDAs of
the Agricultural Sector should also be helpful in identifying the data required for measuring
the respective results and sources of such data.
5.2 Conducting Annual Sector Performance Review

After this MTSS has been implemented, an Annual Performance Review (APR) will be carried out
to assess achievements, failures, challenges, lessons and new developments in the Niger State
Agricultural Sector. The M&E Department of NSPC will be expected to lead the process of the
APRs in the respective MTSS sectors. Specific responsibilities of the department in this respect
will include the following:
• Determine the form the APR will take;

• Provide the timetable for the conduct of the APR (when it will be conducted);
• Determine the process that will be adopted in conducting the APR; and
• Provide requisite supports to sectors in conducting the APRs of their sectors.
According to Figure 10 of the Niger State MTSS Guide, conduct of the APR was being suggested
for January to March each year. This is customarily a good timing as it will allow the SPR to be
completed on time to feed into the MTSS rollover. However, the NSPC will need to review the
suggested timing and decide on what is feasible in Niger State. MTSS sectors will then be guided
by the timetable decided by the NSPC.
The findings from the APR will be used in making revisions to this MTSS in subsequent years.
Improvements in the quality of the MTSS in the future will critically depend on the quality of the
APRs carried out.
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5.3 Organizational Arrangements
M&E is a critical element of the Agricultural Sector MTSS. Through M&E, the Sector hopes to be
able to collate achievements, failures, challenges and lessons with a view to improving sector
performance in future.
Accordingly, the implementation of the Sector’s MTSS will be closely monitored and progress
towards the achievement of the RF of the MTSS will be regularly evaluated. The M&E
Departments of the constituent MDAs (MARD, MLF, NAMDA and NL&FI) will have responsibility
to lead the M&E activities of the MTSS. The Sector M&E Departments will be supported by the
M&E Department of the NSPC. The M&E Departments will, however, be provided with relevant
data by the MDAs responsible for the execution of the respective projects.
Specific responsibilities of the M&E Departments will be as follows:
• Determine the form the M&E activities of the MTSS will take;
• Provide the timetable for the conduct of M&E;
• Determine the process that will be adopted in conducting the M&E; and
• Be responsible for data collection, analyses and reporting.
Everyone involved with the implementation of the MTSS will have access to the report of the
M&E activities to enable them know the results of what they are doing and what they need to
improve upon.
References
1. All Progressive Congress (APC) manifesto 2015 - pages 6, 8,9,10 and 15-17;
2. Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Annual Abstract of Statistics 2009;
3. Niger State Planning Commission (NSPC), Niger State Vision 3:2020;
4. NSPC, Draft Niger State Medium Term Development Plan 2014 – 2018);
5. NSPC, Draft Niger State Medium Term Development Plan 2015 – 2019;
6. Niger State Vision 3:2020 pages 42 – 53;
7. Niger State Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (NSEEDS) – pages 23
and 31;
8. Niger State Development Action Plan (2007 – 2011) – chapter 4, pages 29 – 41;
9. Nigerian Vision 20:2020 – National Implementation Plan vol. II, Chapter 6, pages 52 – 71;
10. Federal Government’s Agricultural Transformation Agenda (2011 – 2015);
11. National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (NEEDS) – pages 26 and 32;
12. New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) – section 3, page 33;
13. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs); and
14. Niger State Agricultural Policy (Draft).
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Annex 1: Crop Production Figures: 2009– 2013
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
SN Crops Area
Area Yield/Ha Production Area Yield/Ha Production Yield/Ha Production Area Yield/Ha Production Yield/Ha Production
(HA'000 Area (HA'000)
(HA'000) (MT) (MT'000) (HA'000) (MT) (MT'000) (MT) (MT'000) (HA'000) (MT) (MT'000) (MT) (MT'000)
)
172,309 2.175 374,772

1 Maize 442 1,420 628 421 2 655 356 3 574 294 2.59 763
267,264 1.315 351,452

2 Sorghum 599 1,056 633 543 1 603 758 2 1,244,47 255 2.99 5717
264,004 3.123 824,486

3 Rice 165 3,219 532 156 3,237 506 371 2,868 1,066 94.5 2.01 669
214,970 0.829 255,695

4 Millet 288 1,523 439 284 1,657 470 221 1,104 255 232 2.99 649
44,616 20.628 920,347

5 Cassava 80 10,219 816 84 11 924 161 11 1,760 561 23.9 1338
240,103 15.036 3,610,186

6 Yam 369 16,913 6,236 343 15,483 5,314 339 17,983 6,091 383 39.0 1493
7 Sweet Pot 21 9,929 209 22 9,097 201 31 11 356 99.5 20.2 201 NA NA NA
298,227 1.675 499,531

10 G/Nut 378 1,247 472 325 1,335 433 301 1 414 356 1.97 699.7
11 B/Nut 23 1,134 26 28 1,221 34 34 2 63 0 0 0 NA NA NA
12 Cowpea 66 619 41 75 1 49 379 1 274 0 0 0 NA NA NA
32,159 1.124 36
13 S/Beans 11 1,262 14 10 1 14 82 1 50 14.9 4.81 71.5
22,163 29.583 655,659

15 S/Cane 13 19,936 264 11 19,408 220 9 15 136 0 0 0
16 Pepper 37 7,327 272 42 8 331 77 14,134 74 13.04 2.16 190 NA NA NA
17 Onion 11 9,321 103 11 10 109 355 11 4 0 0 0 NA NA NA
14,776 8.789 129,862

18 Tomato 12 6,642 82 27 6 170 28 14 223 27.2 5.69 155
19 G/Egg 8 7,866 64 17 7 125 12 6 40 0 0 0 NA NA NA
Source: MARD
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Annex 2: Strategy Standards and Evidence of MTSS
Consistency with them
Strategy Process Standards Evidence of MTSS’ Consistency with Them
1. Policy makers and the Central Planning Ministry are NSPC was timely in issuing indicative budget ceilings
providing timely annual policy guidance and for the rollover of the MTSS. It issued capital and
envelopes, based upon the SDP within which sector recurrent (personnel and overhead) budget ceilings
strategy can be developed (SEE T1A). to all MDAs for the period 2017 – 2019 on 23rd May,
2016
2. Approaches to achieving public involvement in Members of the public / external stakeholders were
strategy making are understood and utilised not involved in the MTSS rollover. This was noted as a
(SEET7). weakness of the approach adopted (Section 1.2).
3. Strategies are published, and a political MTSS development started in Niger State in 2013; no
commitment to implement them is being made or MTSS is published yet.
attached to service charters where appropriate
(SEET8).
4. MTSS teams (or committees or focus groups) in A Sector Planning Team (SPT) was constituted in
each “sector” have been established, and received 2013. The team was trained in all aspects of MTSS
support on how to develop MTSS according to all development. The team was responsible for the
the contents standards listed adjacent from the preparation of the first generation MTSS in 2013 and
Central Planning Ministry (SEE T2). the MTSS rollover in 2014 under the supervision of a
Consultant and independently rolled over 2017-
2019(Section 1.2).
5. Sector strategies are developed into (or iteratively An implementation plan is not yet developed for the
on the basis of) sector implementation or action MTSS. It was noted that an Operational Plan will be
plans. developed by the MDAs responsible for the execution
of the respective projects after this MTSS has been
translated into budget and specific budgets have
been approved for the respective projects (Section
3.8).
Strategy Content Standards Evidence of MTSS’ Consistency with Them
1. Objectives are output and outcome based and the The goals to be achieved are output and outcome
sector strategy includes Key Performance based; realistic and measurable outputs, outcomes
Indicators (KPIs) (SEE T2). and targets were developed as well as appropriate
KPIs (Tables 7, 8 and 16).
2. Sector Strategies cover three years, and rolling The MTSS covers the period 2015 – 2017 (Tables 8
versions demonstrate changes made on the basis and 16); the MTSS rollover benefitted from the Sector
of performance reviews. Performance Review (SPR) conducted by the SPT in
May 2014 (Section 2.4).
3. Sector Strategy demonstrates specific means of The MTSS goals and programmes derived from Niger
achieving or contributing to the achievement of State’s overarching goal for the Agricultural Sector as
relevant Policy Statements in the State set out in Vision 3:2020 document (PP. 9 & 46) and in
Development Plan. the Niger State Development Plan 2015 – 2019 (PP.
28 and 29) (Section 2.7).
4. It is possible to discern in the Sector Strategy The MTSS is consistent with the Federal
consistency with National and Regional Policy Government’s Agriculture Transformation Agenda
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Guidelines (SEE T4). (ATA) (Section 2.5).
5. Sector Strategies incorporate reference to cross Potentials for cross-government and cross-
government and cross-stakeholder working stakeholder working are evident in the MTSS
(SEET5). documents as demonstrated by the section on
programme connections between sector MDAs
(Section 3.4).
6. Sector Strategies are financially feasible (SEE T1B). Projected costs of the MTSS were within the
indicative budget ceilings issued by NSPC to the
Agricultural Sector (Tables 2 and 16).
7. Evidence including research findings are used in the A sector situation analysis was carried out which
development of strategies. (SEE T3). provided useful information for the development of
the sector strategy (Section 2.3). The Sector
Performance Review also provided evidences for the
strategy (Section 2.4).
8. Sector strategies demonstrate that there is the The sector’s institutional structure and staffing were
human resource and organisational capacity to analysed to determine adequacy; staffing analysis
implement them (SEE T6). was in terms of number, salary structure and gender
(Section 2.2).
9. Sector strategies demonstrate that public views Members of the public / external stakeholders were
have been taken into account (SEE T7). not involved in the MTSS rollover. This was noted as a
weakness of the approach adopted (Section 1.2).
10. Sector strategies demonstrate their contributions Sector strategies demonstrate their contributions to
to MDG achievement and to G&SI targets. the achievement of the MDGs, particularly Goal 1
which deals with eradication of extreme poverty and
hunger (Section 2.5).
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Annex 3:Organogram of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural
Development (MARD)
HON. COMMISSIONER
PERMANENT SECRETARY
ACCOUNT & STORES INT. AUDIT NAMDA
Director Director Director Director Director Director

Agric Services Produce &Pest Contr Engr. Services Planning Res. & Statistics Rural Development Personnel Management
D. D. D. D. Gen. D. D Land D. D D. D D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D D. D. Mech. D. D. Appt Welfare D. D. Trg, Prom.

Crops Service Resource Produce W/Res. Maint. Oprats. Irrig. Planning Res. & Stat. Discipline & Report Transpt & Security
CAO Arable C. A. O C.A.O CAO C.I.E. CAPO CAPO OD RI Dev HOD MRI&Rec HOD Mech Chief Exect. Chief Personnel
Crops H/Econs Credit Land Irrigation Prog. & M&E Officer Officer
Clear Scheme Project Technical. Staff Tech./Support Workshop Staff
CAO Hort. C. A. O C.A.O Chief Chief Pest D. D. Staff Opert. & Drivers
Training Soil Survey Produce Control Workshop CAO ZIO
Supt. Officer T.H.S CAPO CAPO CAPO
Irrigat. Res. Statist. Record
Princ.Agric C. A. O C.A.O Zonal Mech. Officers Scheme
Supt. Bida, Information Soil Conserv. Bida, Minna & K/gora ACAPO ACAPO ACAPO PEO Disc PEO Dept. PEO Retir. PEO Train PEO PEO Reg.
N/Bussa, Sect oral Sect oral Computer Serv. Sec. &Office Welfare Statistics Security & Retir. Record &
Agaie & & Mgt.Res. & Int. Stat. Maint. & Sanitat. Transport Statist. Staff Prom
Labozhi Zonal Produce Officer Area Mech. Officers
Bida, Minna, K/gora Agaie Minna N/Bussa ACAPO
Lapai Suleja K/gora Data Bank SEO SEO SEO SEO SEO SEO
Princ. H/Econs Princ. Agric Bida Paiko
Supt. Kagara, Supt. Kuta, Kutigi Rafi Library Clerks
Suleja, Minna Tegina and Services
and K/gora Nasko APO APO APO APO Drivers & Messengers
Minna, Bida, K/gora New
Kagara, Agaie Rijau Bussa
Suleja, Mokwa Night Guards & etc
Kuta
110
Annex 4: Organogram of the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries
development HON.
COMMISIONER (1)
PERMANENT
SECRETARY (1)
DIRECTOR GENERAL
INSTITUTE (1)
SECRETARY
TRAINING RESEARCH CONSULTANCY
DIRECTOR DIRECTOR DIRECTOR

DIRECTOR RANGE
ADMIN (1) VET. PH & ANIMAL
EPIDEM (1) PRODUCTION (1) MNGNT(1)
DD DD PUB. DD DD DD DD DD DD DD DD DD DD
ABBT. HEALTH EPIDM LIBC PPU RABI GRAZ FOD STCK HAT/ AQUA ART
DD (1) DD (1) CHIEF
MNGT ZOONO (1) (1) TRY N DR ROUTE NURS CULT FISH
PRO ACCT (1)
ADMIN (1) SIS (1) (1) RESR BNKS (1) (1) (1)
CUR (1) ERY
V (1) (1)
FARM FARM (1)
PVO PVO MNGR MNGR CHIEF
ALO FARM CFS CFO-
(ABBT) PUB. HLTH PVO MNGR CHIE CHIEF STCK AQ CFO-
CLT EPIDE
ASST. F R.O. FBN O. R.O. AF
SO PAO ACVO CAHHT M ASST.
CPO MEAT PHO FARM PFS
(1) (1) T FARM ASST. SNR
INSP. MNGR MNGR FARM SNR PFO-
EPIDEM. PRIN FBN DD
PLT MNGR STCK AQ
DESK C R.O. O. FS LABS
PVO PAAHT SNR R.O.
OFFICER SNR (1)
L.O. P.O. SNR FBN
PO SLT R.O. SNR OFFICE
SVO SAAT R.O. R STCK
PCO AO 111 PLTRY ROUT
LVSTK
LT OFFICE FARM E
VO OFFICE RANGE
CSH AAHT R ASST. OFFIC
OCS AC R OFFICE ER
CO R
Annex 5: Organogram of Niger State Agricultural Mechanisation and
Development Authority
MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
NAMDA BOARD
INTERNAL AUDIT
LEGAL OFFICER/SECRETARY MANAGEMENT
PROCUREMENT AND STORES
Plan. Rural
NIGER STATE
RAMP II STATE AGRIC. Research Monitoring ENGINEERING Enterprise FINANCE & ADMIN. & NIGER STATE
COMMERCIAL
IMPLEMENTAT Services & SERVICES developme ACCOUNTS SERVICES FADAMA
EXTENSION AGRICULTURAL.
ION OFFICE evaluation nt COORDINATION
SERVICES CREDIT SCHEME
eval. OFFICE
PLAN. MON EVL AGR. BUSS I. D & L ADMIN PERSONNEL TRAINING HUMAN RESOURCES
DEV.
DEVELOPMENT
WOMEN COMM EXTENSION ROADS BLD MWS FAD AGR MAIN ABD
IN UNIT DEV. PROC ACCT.
SERVICES
Agricult ACCT.
ure
FISH L/STK AGR/F ANI.TRCSEED.P AGRNM EAs FI FUAM FAD AGR 112 PY DIS BUD MGT STORE PR
ACCT ACCT
Annex 6: Details of Overhead Costs – Existing and Projected
Approved Actual Jan -May Projections (N'000)
Items of Overhead Costs 2016 (N'000) 2016 (N'000) 2017 2018 2019
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
Travel & Transport 16,885 1,550 17,222 17,567 17,918
Information and Communication Services 0 0 - - -
Stationery 2,666 224 2,719 2,774 2,829
Maintenance of Office Furniture and Equipment 4,443 658 4,532 4,623 4,715
Maintenance of Vehicles and Capital Assets 6,665 359 6,798 6,934 7,073
Training and Staff Development 4,443 0 4,532 4,623 4,715
Professional Services 0 0 - - -
Miscellaneous Expenses 28,882 70 29,459 30,048 30,649
Sub-Total 63,984 2,861 65,264 66,569 67,900
Niger State Agriculture and Mechanisation Development Authority (NAMDA)
Travel & Transport 4,935 117 5,034 5,134 5,237
Utility Services 882 900 918 936
Telephone & Postal Services 551 562 573 585
Stationary 1,103 105.33 1,125 1,148 1,171
Maintenance of office furniture & equipment 2,575 2,627 2,679 2,733
Maintenance of Vehicles and Capital assets 7,901 95 8,059 8,220 8,385
Consultancy Services 1,654 1,687 1,721 1,755
Grants, Contributions and Subventions 2,205 2,249 2,294 2,340
Training and staff Development 1,189 1,213 1,237 1,262
Entertainment and Hospitality 551.2 562 574 585
Donation and Assistance 1,654 1,687 1,721 1,755
Sub-Total 25,200 317 25,704 26,218 26,743
Summary for the Agricultural Sector
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Approved Actual Jan -May Projections (N'000)
Items of Overhead Costs 2016 (N'000) 2016 (N'000) 2017 2018 2019
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development 63,984 2,861 65,264 66,569 67,900
Niger State Agriculture Mechanisation and
Development (NAMDA) 25,200 317 25,704 26,218 26,743
Grand Total Agricultural Sector 89,184 3,178 90,968 92,787 94,643

Note: 2017-2019 data was projected on 2% incremental base as directed by NSPC.
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Annex 7: Ongoing, Existing and New Projects Scorecard
Average (1 -
S/N Project Title Criterion 1 Criterion 2 Criterion 3 Criterion 4 Rank Criterion 5 Rank Scoring Justification
4)
Replication of drip irrigation Propagate the use of drip-

system at the 2 Geopolitical irrigation system
1 4 4 3 1 3.0 10 2 11
Zones.
Procurement of 2no HR3 lister To facilitate irrigated

2 pumps for Jima and Doko 3 4 4 4 3.8 2 3 2 agriculture
Provision of 1000 tube wells and To facilitate irrigated

irrigation pumps across 10 agriculture
3 selected irrigation schemes 3 4 4 3 3.5 4 3 2
Conduct of To allow wider reach to the

sensitization/advocacy on farmers
4 improved crop production 4 4 3 3 3.5 4 2 11
programme
Home economics development To create enable environment

project in 3 geo-political zones for home economic
5 of the state 2 4 2 2 2.5 20 2 11 development activities
Rehabilitation of Kuta and Paiko Strengthen animal health care

6 Clinics 4 4 3 4 3.8 2 3 2 delivery
Rehabilitation of Kagara and Strengthen animal health care

7 New Bussa Clinics 4 4 4 4 4.0 1 3 2 delivery
Rehabilitation of Bida and Kutigi Strengthen animal health care

8 Clinics 3 4 2 3 3.0 10 4 1 delivery
Procurement of 28,000 semen Facilitate livestock upgrading
9 straws of exotic cattle 3 4 2 3 3.0 10 2 11 programme
Procurement of 20 insemination Facilitate livestock upgrading

10 kits 3 4 2 3 3.0 10 3 2 programme
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Average (1 -
4)
Procurement of 6,000 Facilitate livestock upgrading

11 synchronising hormones 3 4 2 3 3.0 10 1 16 programme
Procure 15 number Nitrogen Facilitate livestock upgrading

12 tanks 3 4 2 3 3.0 10 3 2 programme
Procurement of 2000Ltrs Facilitate livestock upgrading

13 Nitrogen liquids 3 4 2 3 3.0 10 2 11 programme
Equipping AILaboratory at Facilitate livestock upgrading

14 Tagwai 3 4 2 3 3.0 10 3 2 programme
Equipping veterinaryClinic at Facilitate livestock upgrading

15 Tagwai 3 4 2 3 3.0 10 3 2 programme
Training oftwenty (20) additional Facilitate livestock upgrading

professional and technical programme
16 3 4 2 3 3.0 10 3 2
inseminators
Equipping of Hatchery and cold Facilitate livestock upgrading

room, rehabilitation of senior programme
17 staff quarters and labour line, 3 4 2 4 3.3 6 0 17
provision of drainage,and
landscaping
Construction and equipping of Facilitate livestock upgrading
1no referral veterinary programme
18 laboratory 3 4 2 4 3.3 6 0 17
Equipping 6 Veterinary Clinic Livestock feed security

19 3 4 2 4 3.3 6 0 17
Procurement of supplementary Secure livestock infrastructure
20 Feeds 3 4 2 4 3.3 6 0 17
Vaccination of 10million cattle, Facilitate logistic for livestock

21 12million sheep and 15million 3 4 2 4 3.3 6 0 17 upgrading programme
Goats
Construction of Calf pen (creep Boost poultry production
22 feeder) 3 4 2 4 3.3 6 0 17 stander
Construction and furnishing of Strengthen animal health care
23 1block of 2class rooms 3 4 2 4 3.3 6 0 17 delivery
116
Average (1 -
4)
Gazette of 8 grazing reserves Facilitate logistic for animal

24 3 4 2 4 3.3 6 0 17 health care delivery
Maintenance of 250ha plot at Strengthen animal health care

25 Bobi grazing reserve 3 4 2 4 3.3 6 0 17 delivery
Installation of sign post at flashy Strengthen animal health care

26 cattle crossing points on high 3 4 2 4 3.3 6 0 17 delivery
ways
Fencing of livestock service Strengthen animal health care
27 centre at Garungabas 3 4 2 4 3.3 6 0 17 delivery
Procurement of 4 Bajaj Strengthen animal health care

28 motorcycles 3 4 2 4 3.3 6 0 17 delivery
Sensitization/Advocate visits and Improve public health care

29 publicity 3 4 2 4 3.3 6 0 17
Establishment of Fish Strengthen animal health care

30 processing center at Tagwai Fish 3 4 2 4 3.3 6 0 17 delivery
hatchery
Construction of market outlet at Strengthen animal health care
31 Tagwai fish hatchery 3 4 2 4 3.3 6 0 17 delivery
Construction of 1 number 2 Strengthen animal health care

32 bedroom flat 3 4 2 4 3.3 6 0 17 delivery
Procurement of 2 boats and Promote settlement of agro-

33 outboard engines (OBE) 3 4 2 4 3.3 6 0 17 pastoralist
Establishment of two zonal
34 hatcheries 3 4 2 4 3.3 6 0 17
State contribution to the Feed security

35 3 4 2 4 3.3 6 0 17
KLFMCU
NGSG annual contributions to
NIFFRI and ECOWAS for fisheries
36 development 3 4 2 4 3.3 6 0 17 Boost fish production
Procurement of 6,960 Fishing

37 nets, 4,500 hooks and 28,500 3 4 2 4 3.3 6 0 17 Boost fish production
twines
117
Average (1 -
4)
Rehabilitation of Wuya Fish

38 Farm 3 4 2 4 3.3 6 0 17 Boost fish production
Support for NSCACS activities For enhancing access to

39 4 4 2 4 3.5 4 2 11 finances by farmers
Payment of premium subsidy to For enhancing access to

40 NAIC 3 4 3 4 3.5 4 2 11 finances by farmers
Agriculture Trust Fund For enhancing access to

41 3 4 2 4 3.3 6 3 2 finances by farmers
Establishment of cotton markets Promote marketing of cotton

42 at Babanna 2 3 2 3 2.5 20 3 2 and encourage production
Establishment of cotton markets Promote marketing of cotton

43 at Agwara 2 3 2 3 2.5 20 2 11 and encourage production
Establishment of cotton markets To make available and

44 at N/Bussa 4 4 2 3 3.3 6 2 11 affordable all year round
Procurement of grains (MT) To make available and

45 4 4 4 4 4.0 1 4 1 affordable all year round
Transportation of grains (Trucks) To make available and

Chemicals procured for grains To make available and
47 storage 4 4 4 4 4.0 1 4 1 affordable all year round
Flag off of sales of grains To make available and

Public sales/distribution of To make available and
49 grains 4 4 4 4 4.0 1 4 1 affordable all year round
Procurement of agro-chemicals Promote marketing of cotton

50 4 4 4 4 4.0 1 4 1 and encourage production
FADAMA IIIAF State Promote marketing of cotton

51 4 4 4 4 4.0 1 3 2
Contribution and encourage production
VCDP State contribution Promote marketing of cotton
52 4 4 4 4 4.0 1 3 2 and encourage production
118
Average (1 -
4)
RIPMAPP State Contribution The development of

sustainable cropping systems
through the testing,
53 3 4 2 3 3.0 10 3 2 multiplication and release of
appropriate roots and tuber
varieties
NPFS, State Contribution Enhance food security of
consumers and farmers
54 2 4 2 2 2.5 20 2 11
through improved access to
and availability of food
State contribution for KOICA Security of consumers and
modern Rice Processing complex farmers through improved
55 2 4 2 2 2.5 20 3 2
project access to and availability of
food
Agricultural Enhance food security of
consumers and farmers
56 Transformation Agenda 4 4 4 4 4.0 1 3 2
through improved access to
Support Program Phase and availability of food
Agricultural Technology Extension service delivery
Generation and Transfer through adoption of
57 4 4 4 4 4.0 1 4 1 technology in achieving
increase in food production
and income of the farmers
Provision of productive To construct/rehabilitate and
infrastructures maintain rural roads, plants,
equipment, vehicle and project
58 3 4 3 3 3.3 6 2 11 building.
Up-grading of Kuta farm Provide wide range of training

59 institute 4 4 4 3 3.8 2 3 2 an agricultural practices
Up-grading of Tegina farm Provide wide range of training

Up-grading of Nasko farm Provide wide range of training

119
Average (1 -
4)
Up-grading of Bida farm institute Provide wide range of training

62 4 4 4 3 3.8 2 3 2 an agricultural practices
Establishment of skill Training of youth

64 development centre 3 4 2 3 3.0 10 4 1
Fertilizer procurement and To make available quality farm

65 distribution 4 4 4 4 4.0 1 4 1 inputs to farmers
Conduct of farmers registration Gather information on
under GES agricultural activities across
66 4 4 4 4 4.0 1 3 2
the state
Attend eight (8) PM&E Gather information on

workshop/Seminars by PM&E agricultural activities across
67 staff 3 4 2 3 3.0 10 3 2 the state
Conduct of Pre-season training Gather information on

agricultural activities across
68 3 4 2 3 3.0 10 3 2
the state
Conduct 6 nosAPS Gather information on

69 3 4 2 3 3.0 10 2 11 the state
Conduct 36 nosMPS Gather information on

70 3 4 2 3 3.0 10 3 2 the state
Conduct Weather Surveys (WS) Gather information on

71 3 4 2 3 3.0 10 2 11 the state
Establish 9nos computerised Gather information on

meteorological stations agricultural activities across
72 3 4 3 2 3.0 10 3 2 the state
120
Average (1 -
4)
Procurement of survey Gather information on

equipment weighing scale, agricultural activities across
73 Triangle rope and GPS 3 4 3 2 3.0 10 3 2 the state
Conduct impact studies on CACS Gather information on

74 2 4 3 3 3.0 10 2 11 the state
Conduct impact studies on Gather information on

Fertilizer Subsidy on Crop agricultural activities across
75 Performance. 2 4 3 4 3.3 6 2 11 the state
Conduct impact studies on NPFS Gather information on

76 2 4 3 4 3.3 6 2 11
the state
Prepare Work plan and Budget, Gather information on

periodic implementation agricultural activities across
77 progress reports 3 4 3 3 3.3 6 2 11 the state
Conduct Farm Crop Gather information on

Budget/FAMAS agricultural activities across
78 3 4 3 2 3.0 10 3 2 the state
Collection of state-wide rural Gather information on

79 infrastructure data 3 4 2 3 3.0 10 2 11 agricultural activities across
the state
RAMP II State contribution Necessary for implementation
80 4 4 4 4 4.0 1 3 2 of RAMP II activities
Rehabilitation of 21 AEHCs To reduce drudgery in

agriculture activities and
81 4 4 4 3 3.8 2 3 2 promote land cultivation
Rehabilitation of 15 units of To reduce drudgery in

82 tractors 4 4 4 3 3.8 2 4 1 agriculture activities and
promote land cultivation
121
Average (1 -
4)
Purchase of workshop To reduce drudgery in

equipment and tools agriculture activities and
83 3 4 3 3 3.3 6 3 2 promote land cultivation
Fencing of Minna Agro- To reduce drudgery in

84 mechanical workshop 3 4 3 3 3.3 6 3 2 agriculture activities and
Construction of a gate house for To reduce drudgery in
85 Minna workshop 3 4 2 3 3.0 10 3 2 agriculture activities and
Renovation and equipping of To provide enable
86 20no offices 2 4 2 4 3.0 10 3 2 environment for staffs
Purchase of office furniture for To provide enable

87 20no offices 2 4 2 4 3.0 10 2 11 environment for staffs
Maintenance and upgrading of To provide data for proper

Agricultural Data Clinic to planning
88 4 4 4 3 3.8 2 3 2
NSAMIS
Payment of consultancy services To provide data for proper

89 NIRSAL and NSRIC 4 4 4 4 4.0 1 3 2 planning
Quarterly Monitoring & To provide data for proper

90 Evaluation of agriculture project 3 4 3 4 3.5 4 3 2 planning
Research and Consultancy To provide data for proper
91 3 4 4 4 3.8 2 4 1 planning
Procurement of 1 number 4 WD To provide data for proper
92 Toyota Hilux vehicle 4 4 4 3 3.8 2 3 2 planning

Note: The existing and ongoing projects were ranked or prioritised on the basis of their average score on the 5 scoring criteria; while the new projects were
ranked or prioritised on the basis of their scores on criterion 5.
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Annex 8: Details of Projects Costing
S/N AGRICULTURAL SECTOR Yr 1 Yr 2 Yr 3 Yr 1 -Yr 3 Total
PERSONNEL RESOURCE CEILING
1,175,914,928.80 1,234,710,675.45 1,296,446,209.23 3,707,071,813.48
(ENVELOPE)
OVERHEAD RESOURCE CEILING
90,967,884.00 92,787,250.80 94,642,986.50 278,398,121.30
(ENVELOPE)
CAPITAL RESOURCE CEILING (ENVELOPE) 3,886,887,000.00 3,969,108,242.00 5,269,968,485.51 13,125,963,727.51
TOTAL RESOURCE CEILING (ENVELOPE) 5,153,769,812.80 5,296,606,168.25 6,661,057,681.24 17,111,433,662.29
RESOURCE OUTSTANDING (Surplus/Deficit) 0 0 0 0
Section 1 : Existing Projects 5,153,769,812.80 5,296,606,168.25 6,661,057,681.55 17,111,433,662.60
1 Personnel Costs 1,175,914,928.80 1,234,710,675.45 1,296,446,209.23 3,707,071,813.48
Overhead Costs: 90,967,884.00 92,787,250.80 94,642,986.51 278,398,121.31
Travel & Transport 22,256,060.00 22,701,181.20 23,155,204.82 68,112,446.02
2
3 Maintenance of Office 7,158,700.00 7,301,874.00 7,447,911.48 21,908,485.48
Motor Vehicle Repair 14,857,320.00 15,154,466.00 15,457,555.73 45,469,341.73
4
5 Workshop & Training 5,744,980.00 5,859,844.00 5,977,077.19 17,581,901.19
6 Stationery 3,844,380.00 3,921,306.40 3,999,692.95 11,765,379.35
7 General Utility 899,640.00 917,632.80 935,985.46 2,753,258.26
8 Special Duties Expenses 29,459,300.00 30,048,486.00 30,649,455.72 90,157,241.72
9 Grants 2,249,100.00 2,294,100.00 2,339,963.64 6,883,163.64
10 Consultancy Fees 1,687,080.00 1,720,800.00 1,755,238.03 5,163,118.03
11 Postal and Postage 562,224.00 573,500.00 584,937.85 1,720,661.85
12 Donation and Assistance 1,687,080.00 1,720,800.00 1,755,238.03 5,163,118.03
13 Entertainment and Hospitality 562,020.00 573,260.40 584,725.61 1,720,006.01
Capital Expenditure - Existing and Ongoing
3,886,887,000.00 3,969,108,242.00 5,269,968,485.81 13,125,963,727.81
Projects:
Replication of drip irrigation system at the 2
26,412,000.00 26,971,934.40 35,602,953.41 88,986,887.81
1 Geopolitical Zones.
Procurement of 2no HR3 lister pumps for
28,940,000.00 29,553,528.00 39,010,656.96 97,504,184.96
2 Jima and Doko
Provision of 1000 tube wells and irrigation
pumps across 10 selected irrigation 200,000,000.00 204,240,000.00 269,596,800.00 673,836,800.00
3 schemes
Conduct of sensitisation/advocacy on
23,088,000.00 23,577,465.60 31,122,254.59 77,787,720.19
4 improved crop production programme
Home economics development project in 3
20,000,000.00 20,424,000.00 26,959,680.00 67,383,680.00
5 geo-political zones of the state
6 Rehabilitation of Kuta and Paiko Clinics 6,000,000.00 6,127,200.00 8,087,904.00 20,215,104.00
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1,175,914,928.80 1,234,710,675.45 1,296,446,209.23 3,707,071,813.48
(ENVELOPE)
90,967,884.00 92,787,250.80 94,642,986.50 278,398,121.30
(ENVELOPE)
Rehabilitation of Kagara and New
8,000,000.00 8,169,600.00 10,783,872.00 26,953,472.00
7 BussaClinics
8 Rehabilitation of Bida and Kutigi Clinics 6,000,000.00 6,127,200.00 8,087,904.00 20,215,104.00
Procurement of 28,000 semen straws of
20,000,000.00 20,424,000.00 26,959,680.00 67,383,680.00
9 exotic cattle
Procurement of 20 insemination kits 8,200,000.00 8,373,840.00 11,053,468.80 27,627,308.80
10
Procurement of 6,000 synchronising
10,000,000.00 10,212,000.00 13,479,840.00 33,691,840.00
11 hormones
12 Procure 15 number Nitrogen tanks 4,000,000.00 4,084,800.00 5,391,936.00 13,476,736.00
Procurement of 2000Ltrs Nitrogen liquids
1,100,000.00 1,123,320.00 1,482,782.40 3,706,102.40
13
Equipping AILaboratory at Tagwai
4,000,000.00 4,084,800.00 5,391,936.00 13,476,736.00
14
Equipping veterinaryClinic at Tagwai
14,000,000.00 14,296,800.00 18,871,776.00 47,168,576.00
15
Training of twenty (20) additional
800,000.00 816,960.00 1,078,387.20 2,695,347.20
16 professional and technical inseminators
Equipping of Hatchery and cold room,
rehabilitation of senior staff quarters and
14,000,000.00 14,296,800.00 18,871,776.00 47,168,576.00
labour line, provision of drainage ,and
17 landscaping
Construction and equipping of 1no referral
veterinary laboratory 15,000,000.00 15,318,000.00 20,219,760.00 50,537,760.00
18
19 Equipping 6 no Veterinary Clinic 3,000,000.00 3,063,600.00 4,043,952.00 10,107,552.00
Procurement of supplementary Feeds 7,000,000.00 7,148,400.00 9,435,888.00 23,584,288.00
20
Vaccination of 10million cattle, 12million
sheep and 15million Goats 9,500,000.00 9,701,400.00 12,805,848.00 32,007,248.00
21
22 Construction of Calf pen (creep feeder) 15,000,000.00 15,318,000.00 20,219,760.00 50,537,760.00
Construction and furnishing of 1block of
8,500,000.00 8,680,200.00 11,457,864.00 28,638,064.00
23 2class rooms
24 Gazette of 8 grazing reserves 15,000,000.00 15,318,000.00 20,219,760.00 50,537,760.00
Maintenance of 250ha plot at Bobi grazing 11,000,000.00 11,233,200.00 14,827,824.00 37,061,024.00
25
124
1,175,914,928.80 1,234,710,675.45 1,296,446,209.23 3,707,071,813.48
(ENVELOPE)
90,967,884.00 92,787,250.80 94,642,986.50 278,398,121.30
(ENVELOPE)
reserve
Installation of sign post at flashy cattle

2,000,000.00 2,042,400.00 2,695,968.00 6,738,368.00
26 crossing points on high ways
Fencing of livestock service centre at
6,568,000.00 6,707,241.60 8,853,558.91 22,128,800.51
27 Garungabas
28 Procurement of 8 Bajaj motorcycles 1,600,000.00 1,633,920.00 2,156,774.40 5,390,694.40
29 Sensitization/Advocate visits and publicity 1,494,000.00 1,525,672.80 2,013,888.10 5,033,560.90
Establishment of Fish processing center at
20,000,000.00 20,424,000.00 26,959,680.00 67,383,680.00
30 Tagwai Fish hatchery.
Construction of market outlet at Tagwai
5,000,000.00 5,106,000.00 6,739,920.00 16,845,920.00
31 fish hatchery
32 Construction of 1 number 2 bedroom flat 7,500,000.00 7,659,000.00 10,109,880.00 25,268,880.00
Procurement of 2 boats and outboard
16,000,000.00 16,339,200.00 21,567,744.00 53,906,944.00
33 engines (OBE)
34 Establishment of two zonal hatcheries 4,000,000.00 4,084,800.00 5,391,936.00 13,476,736.00
State contribution to the Kainji Lake
Fisheries Management and Conservation 4,000,000.00 4,084,800.00 5,391,936.00 13,476,736.00
35 Unit (KLFMCU)
NGSG annual contributions to National
Institute for Freshwater Fisheries Research
4,000,000.00 4,084,800.00 5,391,936.00 13,476,736.00
(NIFFRI) and ECOWAS for fisheries
36 development
Procurement of 6,960 Fishing nets, 4,500
hooks and 28,500 twines 20,758,000.00 21,198,069.60 27,981,451.87 69,937,521.47
37
38 Rehabilitation of Wuya Fish Farm 10,379,000.00 10,599,034.80 13,990,725.94 34,968,760.74
Support for NSCACS activities 40,000,000.00 40,848,000.00 53,919,360.00 134,767,360.00
39
Payment of premium subsidy to NAIC
45,000,000.00 45,954,000.00 60,659,280.00 151,613,280.00
40
Agriculture Trust Fund 50,000,000.00 51,060,000.00 67,399,200.00 168,459,200.00
41
Establishment of cotton markets at
Babanna 8,500,000.00 8,680,200.00 11,457,864.00 28,638,064.00
42
125
1,175,914,928.80 1,234,710,675.45 1,296,446,209.23 3,707,071,813.48
(ENVELOPE)
90,967,884.00 92,787,250.80 94,642,986.50 278,398,121.30
(ENVELOPE)
Establishment of cotton markets at Agwara
9,500,000.00 9,701,400.00 12,805,848.00 32,007,248.00
43
Establishment of cotton markets at N/Bussa
7,500,000.00 7,659,000.00 10,129,880.00 25,288,880.00
44
Procurement of grains (MT) 103,142,000.00 105,328,610.40 139,177,765.73 347,648,376.13
45
Transportation of grains (Trucks)
4,000,000.00 4,084,800.00 5,391,936.00 13,476,736.00
46
Chemicals procured for grains storage
2,000,000.00 2,042,400.00 2,695,968.00 6,738,368.00
47
Flag off of sales of grains 4,000,000.00 4,084,800.00 5,391,936.00 13,476,736.00
48
Public sales/distribution of grains
2,000,000.00 2,042,400.00 2,695,968.00 6,738,368.00
49
Procurement of agro-chemicals.
4,000,000.00 4,084,800.00 5,391,936.00 13,476,736.00
50
FADAMA IIIAF State Contribution
60,000,000.00 61,272,000.00 80,879,040.00 202,151,040.00
51
VCDP State contribution 79,400,000.00 81,083,280.00 107,029,929.60 267,513,209.60
52
RIPMAPP State Contribution 58,000,000.00 59,229,600.00 78,183,072.00 195,412,672.00
53
National Programme for Food Security
74,800,000.00 76,365,760.00 100,829,203.20 251,994,963.20
54 (NPFS), State Contribution
State contribution for KOICA modern Rice
20,000,000.00 20,424,000.00 26,962,680.00 67,386,680.00
55 Processing complex project
Agricultural Transformation
66,000,000.00 66,000,000.00 66,000,000.00 198,000,000.00
56 Agenda Support Program Phase –I
Agricultural Technology Generation and
Transfer 237,864,000.00 244,305,916.80 343,603,810.18 825,773,727.00
57
Provision of productive infrastructures
38,018,000.00 38,823,981.60 51,247,655.71 128,089,637.31
58
126
1,175,914,928.80 1,234,710,675.45 1,296,446,209.23 3,707,071,813.48
(ENVELOPE)
90,967,884.00 92,787,250.80 94,642,986.50 278,398,121.30
(ENVELOPE)
Up-grading of Kuta farm institute
13,000,000.00 13,275,600.00 17,523,792.00 43,799,392.00
59
Up-grading of Tegina farm institute
13,000,000.00 13,275,600.00 17,523,792.00 43,799,392.00
60
Up-grading of Nasko farm institute
13,000,000.00 13,275,600.00 17,523,792.00 43,799,392.00
61
Up-grading of Bida farm institute
40,500,000.00 41,358,600.00 54,593,352.00 136,451,952.00
62
Establishment of skill development centre
20,000,000.00 20,424,000.00 26,959,680.00 67,383,680.00
63
Procurement of 9no Global Positioning
System (GPS) equipment for 3 zones 1,170,000.00 1,194,804.00 3,577,141.28 5,941,945.28
64
Fertilizer procurement and distribution
1,462,529,000.00 1,493,534,614.80 1,995,465,691.54 4,951,529,306.34
65
66 Conduct of farmers registration 44,000,000.00 44,932,800.00 59,311,296.00 148,244,096.00
Attend eight Planning, Monitoring and
Evaluation (PM&E) workshop/Seminars by 43,000,000.00 43,911,600.00 57,963,312.00 144,874,912.00
67 PM&Estaff
Conduct of Pre-season training 1,502,000.00 1,532,000.00 2,024,671.97 5,058,671.97
68
Conduct 6 nos APS 1,600,000.00 1,633,000.00 2,156,774.40 5,389,774.40
69
Conduct 36 nos MPS 500,000.00 510,600.00 673,992.00 1,684,592.00
70
Conduct Weather Surveys (WS)
500,000.00 510,600.00 673,992.00 1,684,592.00
71
Establish 9nos computerised meteorological
stations 4,800,000.00 4,901,760.00 6,470,323.20 16,172,083.20
72
Procurement of survey equipment weighing
1,500,000.00 1,533,800.00 2,021,976.00 5,055,776.00
73 scale, Triangle rope and GPS
Conduct impact studies on Commercial
10,000,000.00 10,212,000.00 13,479,840.00 33,691,840.00
74 Agriculture and Credit Scheme (CACS)
127
1,175,914,928.80 1,234,710,675.45 1,296,446,209.23 3,707,071,813.48
(ENVELOPE)
90,967,884.00 92,787,250.80 94,642,986.50 278,398,121.30
(ENVELOPE)
Conduct impact studies on Fertilizer Subsidy
10,000,000.00 10,212,000.00 13,479,840.00 33,691,840.00
75 on Crop Performance
76 Conduct impact studies on NPFS 5,000,000.00 5,106,000.00 7,739,920.00 17,845,920.00
Prepare Work plan and Budget, periodic
400,000.00 408,480.00 559,193.60 1,367,673.60
77 implementation progress reports
Conduct Farm Crop Budget/Farm
100,000.00 102,120.00 134,798.40 336,918.40
78 Management Advisory services (FAMAS)
Collection of state-wide rural infrastructure
data 13,450,000.00 13,735,140.00 18,230,384.80 45,415,524.80
79
RAMP II State contribution 125,000,000.00 127,620,000.00 168,498,000.00 421,118,000.00
80
Rehabilitation of 21 AEHCS 45,000,000.00 45,954,000.00 60,659,280.00 151,613,280.00
81
82 Rehabilitation of 15units of tractors. 90,000,000.00 91,908,000.00 121,318,560.00 303,226,560.00
Purchase of workshop equipment and tools
27,734,000.00 28,321,960.80 37,384,988.26 93,440,949.06
83
Fencing of Minna Agro-mechanical
workshop 25,840,000.00 26,387,808.00 35,831,906.56 88,059,714.56
84
Construction of a gate house for Minna
workshop 1,114,000.00 1,137,616.80 1,501,654.18 3,753,270.98
85
86 Renovation and equipping of 20no offices 1,103,000.00 1,126,383.60 1,486,826.35 3,716,209.95
87 Purchase of office furniture for 20no offices 1,670,000.00 1,705,404.00 3,251,133.28 6,626,537.28
Maintenance and upgrading of Agricultural
Data Clinic to Niger State Agricultural 44,000,000.00 44,932,800.00 59,331,296.00 148,264,096.00
88 Management Information System (NSAMIS)
Payment of consultancy services NIRSAL
and Niger State Rice Investment 301,956,000.00 308,327,467.20 407,031,856.70 1,017,315,323.90
89 Consortium (NSRIC)
Quarterly Monitoring & Evaluation of
10,480,000.00 10,702,176.00 14,226,872.32 35,409,048.32
90 agriculture project
91 Research and Consultancy 10,206,000.00 10,322,367.20 13,757,524.70 34,285,891.90
Procurement of 1 number 4 WD Toyota
7,670,000.00 7,832,604.00 11,439,037.28 26,941,641.28
92 Hilux vehicle
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Niger State Agricultural Sector

2020 – 2022 MEDIUM-TERM SECTOR STRATEGY (MTSS)

Dr. Ibrahim Garba Musa Dr. Wasa Jonathan K.

Our profound gratitude goes to the Honorable Commissioners, Permanent Secretaries of

Agricultural Sector Planning Team

Table 1. Resource Requirement

The MTSS on the other hand, tries Annual

Specifically, this document describes the:

1.2 Summary of the Process Used for the MTSS rollover

o Revising and validating the preliminary reviews comprising: sector policy

The revised MTSS was documented using the agreed template;

• Disaggregation of registered farmers by Gender and Social Inclusion.

1.3 Summary of Conclusions

• Irrigation practices will be encouraged and intensified so as to minimize dependence on

1.4 Summary of the Sector’s Programmes, Outcomes and Related Expenditures

Increased yield and

Increased fish production

All year round grains

Increased access to quality

Availability of reliable and

4.1 Rural feeder

Effective and efficient

Total Programmes Cost (N’000) 5,308,694 5,809,218 7,662,292

Indicative Capital Budget Ceiling (N’000) 5,308,694 5,809,218 7,662,292

Indicative Capital Budget Ceiling less Total

1.5 Outline of the Structure of the Document

Niger State, one of

• Expansive arable land for mechanized farming;

2.2 Overview of the Sector’s Institutional Structure

4 24 0 11 0 125 0 227 1 312 99 1

14 33 13 17 1 147 36 187 48 215 77 23

Total 182 47 173 49 743 123 1364 210 1,574 86 14

2.3 The Current Situation in the Sector

A similar trend is observable in respect of livestock production. For instance, Development

2.4. Summary of Sector Performance Review

2.5 Sector Policy

• Goals, programmes and outcomes determination;

• Niger State Vision 3:2020 pages 42 – 53;

• Expansion of agricultural extension workers qualitatively and quantitatively to boost

o Collaboration with Off-takers, Input Suppliers, development Banks such as Bank

2.6 Statement of the Sector’s Mission, Vision and Core Values

3.4 1) Regularity and 1) VLSconducted 1) 2 nosAPS 1) 2 1)2 nosAPS

Source: Sector Planning Team’s analyses

3.1 Outline Major Strategic Challenges

3.2 Resource Constraints

Budget Actual (%) Budget Actual (%)

o Participation in the Federal Government Agricultural Transformation Agenda

3.2.2 Projects Scoring and Prioritization

• Evidence that the existing projects are indeed ongoing;

The standard sequences of capital projects selection in MTSS are as follows:

3.2.3 Existing Budget Commitments (Recurrent and Capital)

Table 10: Personnel Costs – Existing and Projected

Basic Salary (N'000) 116,177 116,177 123.148 131,768 135,721

Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries

Number of Staff 217 218 250 268 276

Basic Salary (N'000) 404,191 252,288 267,425 286,145 294,729

Basic Salary (N'000) 717,096 340,129 717,499 767,724 790,756

3.2.4 Summary of Cancelled or Shut Down Projects

3.3 Contributions from our Partners

3.4 Programme Connections between Sector MDAs

10,000 4,000 3,000 3,000

66,000,00 66,000,00 66,000,00 Niger

Conduct bi- 18 Number Number of 6 Number 6 Number 6 Number