Agric Minister Launches Hotline For Farmers #nigeria

The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
has set up a Growth Enhancement Support Scheme GESS
hotline for farmers.
GESS hotline was introduced ahead of the dry farming
season in November for the public to make complaints on
poor services and products, and to also report cases of
fraud and corruption.
To make complaints to the hotline, sufficient information
should be provided. They include names and location of
individual's, detailed description of events, using as much
relevant detail as possible to aid easy solutions to
problems.
GESS hot lines numbers are +234-081-421-087-80,
+234-070-608-832-38, which can only be accessed
Monday-Friday 8am-4pm.
Other avenues for making complaints in addition to the
hotlines numbers are to visit any of the ministry's offices in
the 36 state offices between the hours of 9am-4pm or send
a mail to gescomplaints@fmard.gov.ng.
The scheme promised to resolve all complaints within
seven working days while information submitted are kept
confidential.
GESS aims at changing the government's role to farmers to
enable the procurement and distributions of fertilizer.
The scheme is also aimed at targeting five million farmers
each year that will receive GESS in their mobile phone. That
will total 20 million at the end of four years.
It will also provide support directly to farmers to enable
them produce agricultural inputs at affordable prices, at
right time and place.