Speaking at the regional mechanisation stakeholders’ sensitisation workshop, Odeyemi said the government intends to continue with the registration of farmers in 2014, adding that the registration of commercial farmers will also be carried out by the ministry.
Odeyemi also explained that the government is putting in place a bush clearing intervention with about 6,000 hectares of farmland earmarked to be cleared across the country as a way of assisting farmers, who have difficulties in that area.