How Leventis Foundation is reshaping agriculture
18 March 2019 |
3:31 pm
The Leventis Foundation Nigeria was established in 1988 to take over and expand the work the “Nigeria Advisory Panel” of the A. G. Leventis Foundation which had been active since
1979. In support of the Federal Government’s new Educational Programme with its emphasis on self-suciency in food production, the Foundation took a major policy decision in 1986 by choosing as its main goal the training of young farmers in modern agricultural methods.
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