About 200,000 rural farmers in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) are to be to be registered in a new scheme tagged Growth Enhancement Scheme (GES) Touch and Pay (TAP) for farmers’ registration in order to acquire fertiliser for this year’s farming season.
The FCT Director of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Dr. Charles Momoh made this known recently in Gwagwalada, Abuja, at a sensitisation workshop on the scheme organized for farmers, agro dealers, and commodity associations. He explained that the GES TAP is an offline technology that captures the data of farmers along with their photographs and at the end of the registration exercise, a green card will be issued to them.
He stated that government has mandated the ministry, in collaboration with the International Fertiliser Development Centre (IFDC) and relevant stakeholders to mobilise and register 200,000 farmers in the scheme.
“As long as you are a farmer in FCT and you want to have a fertilizer,” he said, “you must register in the new system.”
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