$538 million agro-zones projects can solve poverty in Nigeria: AfDB special adviser

The African Development Bank (AfDB) says the newly launched agro-industrial processing zones in Nigeria can tackle poverty in Nigeria.

In an interview with NAN, Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, a special adviser on industrialisation to the AfDB president, said the project’s impacts would save millions of Nigerians from hunger and poverty if properly harnessed.

A $538 million initiative, the programme is expected to bring economic infrastructure to rural areas of high agricultural potential.

The zones, which will take up 19 per cent of Nigeria’s landmass, are expected to…