FG registers 121,000 agric cooperatives, targets 800,000 under transformation programme

The ongoing registration of cooperatives will assist the Federal Government to achieve the set targets under the Agricultural Transformation Agenda, says the Federal Department of Cooperatives. Mr Jonathan Dangwaran, the Director of Cooperatives, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, said this in an interview with newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja.
Dangwaran said that the department had registered more than 121,000 cooperative societies serving over 1.4 million farming families. He said that the target under the transformation programme was to increase the number of registered cooperatives to 800,000, serving over 20 million farm families. He said that the registration of smallholder farmers had become imperative for proper monitoring and to ease their access to financial assistance.