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The Rural Electrification Agency (REA), has partnered the ECOWAS Commission through the Regional Off-Grid Electricity Access Project (ROGEAP), to accelerate the deployment of energy-efficient, productive-use technologies across regional agricultural chains. Aimed at modernizing traditional farming and boosting crop yields, the partnership seeks to promote clean-energy solutions in Nigerian farming system, to insulate food production from high diesel costs, cut post-harvest losses, and fortify Nigeria’s food security. Speaking at the National stakeholders workshop in Abuja on Thursday, Joseph Tegbe, Nigeria’s Minister of power, said that the Productive Use of Energy agenda deserves a collective attention, as it sits at the intersection of energy, agriculture, industrialisation, financial inclusion, climate resilience, food security, rural development and job creation. He decried that even though Nigeria possesses one of Africa’s largest agricultural economies, industrious farmers are industrious and fertile land is fertile, yet far too much agricultural value is still lost between harvest and market due to challenges that transcend agricultural into energy challenges. “We lose crop
Source: Business Day
