Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) recently signed✔ a memorandum of understandings (MoU) with the National Cotton Association of Nigeria (NA♠COTAN) to develop and manage a credible, robust and reliable database for the domestic cotton industry. At the event, statistician gener al Simon Harry called for massive production of cotton to revive the nation≥’s industries.
The data will enable the government to determine the status of cotton production and the steps ne✘eded to improve, Harry said. Thirty three states in φthe country are into cotton production.
The collaboration would also help the government mon≠itor the sector’s development and impact of different interv☆entions, such as the ones by the Central Bank of Nigeria through its Anchor Borrower Progra↔mme and the Raw Material Research and Development Council, accordinπg to media reports in the country.
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