NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY POLICY

A Policy provides a strategic framework for transforming Nigeria’s entire agri-food system. It focuses on empowering smallholder farmers by providing access to modern tools, financing, and markets. The goal is to ensure food security, drive economic diversification, and lift rural households into productive agriculture.

What Is This Policy?

NATIP is Nigeria’s strategic agricultural policy framework (2022–2027) aimed at transforming the agri-food system through technology, innovation, and inclusive growth, ensuring food security, economic diversification, and wealth creation.

Who Does It Target?

The policy is directed toward smallholder farmers, who form the backbone of Nigeria’s food production system but often lack access to modern tools, financing, and markets. By focusing on them, NATIP seeks to lift millions of rural households out of subsistence farming into more productive, market-oriented agriculture.

What Does It Aim to Achieve?

The overarching objective of NATIP is to transform Nigeria’s agri-food system into a modern, technology-driven, and inclusive sector that guarantees food security and contributes meaningfully to economic diversification.

Key Features

Technology-driven agriculture: mechanization, digital tools, biotechnology. Innovation hubs: fostering research and development. Value chain development: from production to processing and marketing. Climate-smart agriculture: resilience against climate change. Youth & women empowerment: training, access to finance, inclusion. Public-private partnerships: leveraging private investment.

Current Status

Rollout Stage: implementation Coverage: applies nationwide Beneficiaries to Date: million of farmers Funding: Federal Government budget allocations, donor support (World Bank, FAO, IFAD), and private sector investment.

How to Access

Official policy documents available via: FMARD Website: https://www.fmard.gov.ng Policy briefs and reports published in FMARD’s annual reviews.

Important Terms

Term 1-Agri-food system This refers to the entire chain of activities that bring food from the farm to the consumer’s table. It includes production, processing, storage, distribution, and consumption. Term 2- Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) CSA is an approach that integrates sustainable farming practices with climate resilience. It emphasizes techniques like drought-resistant crop varieties, efficient irrigation, soil conservation, and reduced greenhouse gas emissions.

Official Resources

Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD): https://www.fmard.gov.ng Email: [email protected] Phone: +234 808 942 9552 Contact: +234 (0) 9461 7700 Link to document Link to document

Legal Framework

Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (Section 16); Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria Act; National Agricultural Seeds Act; Science and Technology Act; Land Use Act 1978