Taraba by vcdp_ad State Office Home > Anambra Taraba Niger Nasarawa Kogi Ogun Enugu Ebonyi Benue Anambra Taraba StateTaraba State, known as “Nature’s Gift to the Nation”, is located in the north-eastern part of Nigeria. It was created on August 27, 1991. The state’s capital is Jalingo. Taraba is predominantly an agrarian state with a diverse population and rich natural resources.Key Features:Location: North-eastern Nigeria, sharing borders with Adamawa, Benue, Cross Rivers, and Cameroon. Capital: Jalingo. Economy: Agriculture. A major economic activity with crops like rice, maize, cassava, sorghum, yam, soybeans, sesame seeds, groundnut, cocoa, coffee, and millet. Resources: Abundant natural resources, including diverse agricultural products and potentially minerals. Population: Taraba state is composed of 16 LGAs with an estimated population of 3.6 million in 2016. VCDP Operations in Taraba State Edit Content State Programme Coordinator Edit Content Mr Musa Irimiya JP irimiya@vcdpnigeria.org Musa S. Irimiya holds a B. A Agric degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in 1986. He worked as a Planning Officer for over 30 years and has recently retired as Director Planning in the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, Taraba State. He has also worked as the Monitoring and Evaluation Officer of FADAMA III Project- a World Bank Project between 2009 – 2014He is presently the State Programme Coordinator of Taraba State (FGN/IFAD) Value Chain Development Programme. He attended trainings such as Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation at Ghana Institute of Management & Public Administration (GIMPA), Accra; Irrigated Agriculture in Vietnam (a Study Tour) organized by FGN/IFAD-VCDP/GMX Consulting LTD/Harvest Africa Group LTD in 2016; participated in Learning Route on “Innovative Practices and Tools to Reduce Land Use Conflicts Between Farmers and Livestock Keepers”. Experiences and Lessons from Kenya and Tanzania. Sponsor: ProcasurAfrica/IFAD. Attended an International Cassava Conference-GCP21-IV, Cotonou, Benin Republic in June 2018. He was, also, lucky to visit the Holy Land of Israel for Holy Pilgrimage at the Expense of Taraba State Government in year 2000.As a result of his commitment to organizational strategic framework (vision, mission, values, strategies, goals and action plans) for significant success and a vibrant economy driven by value-added service, Musa and his team in IFAD-VCDP, Taraba State worked tirelessly to bring about significant changes in the lives of the benefitting farmers such as increase in yields for cassava and rice value chains. For Cassava, it is 33.8MT/Ha from 12MT/Ha while rice was 2.01MT/Ha and now 5.5MT for rain-fed Agriculture. For dry Season production, the yield was 4.5MT/Ha but now, 8.4MT/Ha. Musa developed an in-house soft-ware using MS-Excel to track daily expenditures in the programme resulting to real time Budgetary balances to guide against over-budgetary expenditure. He is happily married and blessed with children. VCDP office address in Taraba Edit Content Click on the Edit Content button to edit/add the content. Progress Report Edit Content Click on the Edit Content button to edit/add the content. Success Stories Edit Content Click on the Edit Content button to edit/add the content. Research and studies Edit Content Nigeria is predisposed to severe negative impacts from climate change due to its fragile economy, weak resilience and low adaptive capacity. Rural livelihoods significantly depend on the performance of climate sensitive natural resources, especially in the agricultural sector. Environmental degradation, extreme weather and long-term climate change that undermine the natural resource stock and productive landscapes pose important challenges to sustainable agriculture, livelihoods and food security. Future climate scenarios project a consistent temperature rise (about 0.02oC per year from 2000 until 2100) and increase in variability and occurrences of extreme events leading to possible dry spells, droughts, floods, recurrence of locust and pests and reductions in yield. Annual flooding from the Niger and Benue Rivers and local tributaries and resource conflicts have heightened loss on agricultural investments and soil fertility and human insecurity. VCDP is stepping up environmental and climate change activities under a systematic strategy that includes mainstreaming options for green growth and climate-smart production and processing, improvement of resilience through deepening of insurance and “no regrets” options, and provision of appropriate climate information. Infographics Edit Content In Nigeria, a major constraint faced by women in the agricultural sector is lack of access to formal credit. This challenge is felt more acutely by women than men. According to a 2022 report by ActionAid, 77% of Nigerian women in the agri-food systems lack access to government credits like those in the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and other financial institutions. Activities in the agri-food systems and most informal sectors of the rural economy of developing nations including Nigeria require lots of capital which most women lack (World Bank, 2012). According to Enhancing Financial Innovation & Access (EFInA)’s Access to financial services in Nigeria 2020 survey, women are more financially excluded than men – only 45 per cent of women use formal financial services, compared with 56 per cent of men. Access to formal credit becomes a huge challenge for these women as they cannot build/grow their businesses in line with their aspirations. The overall goal of financial inclusion in VCDP is to ensure that farmers have sustainable access to financial services after exiting two times matching grant support for inputs and one-time matching grant support for equipment. More also, other value chain actors such as financial services, off-takers, insurance services were able to provide financial services directly or indirectly to them. The services include savings, credit, cashless credit with off-takers and insurance services. In order to achieve this, the programme developed a financial inclusion strategy which covers the following strategic areas: Financial literacy training to the beneficiaries at the cluster levelProvision of capacity building and technical assistance support to financial institutions with MOU to enhance effective delivery of financial services and productsProvision of technical assistance support to insurance service providersProvision of support in setting up Digital Financial Services (DFS) Under financial literacy training, the major goal is to ensure that VCDP beneficiaries understand the concept of financial terminologies used by service providers and make informed decision about financial services. Under technical assistance support to financial institutions, the major objective is to ensure that the programme provides a structured demand-driven and result-oriented capacity building support to financial institutions which will enable them to provide sustainable financial services in terms of friendly financial products (savings and credits) to VCDP beneficiaries. Newsletter Edit Content Click on the Edit Content button to edit/add the content. Factsheet Edit Content Click on the Edit Content button to edit/add the content. Photos Edit Content Click on the Edit Content button to edit/add the content. Videos Edit Content Click on the Edit Content button to edit/add the content. News Edit Content Click on the Edit Content button to edit/add the content. Share FacebookTwitterPinterestThreadsBlueskyEmail