In a country where governments at the federal and state levels are allocating just 1.8 percent of their annual budget to agriculture, the Village Savings and Loans Association, VSLA initiative has already opened a new vista of hope for women farmers in rural areas in five Nigerian Northern states.
Attempts to include Kano and Plateau States as part of beneficiaries in the proposed North East Development Commission, NEDC, failed at the floor of the Senate on Tuesday.
