 Action 89 Jiren order CSO groups have taken a swipe at the nation's budget for agriculture in the 2023 proposal as well as previous budgets. They set the budget allocation of 228.4 billion narrates not enough to address the nation's local consumption and export demands unless the federal government addresses issues of inflation or provides additional budget to the agricultural sector. Emmanuel Higiene completes the report. Action AID in collaboration with Small Scale Women Farmers Organization in Nigeria came together to dissect the 2023 proposed agricultural budget. In their presentation, the coalition observed that the agricultural sector, which is supposed to be the main engine for growth and development of the economy, is grossly underfunded. Given that the agricultural sector is the job that the sector of potential to transform the economy and create jobs for its many youth, we consider this allocation to be very low. And again, if the government had met the 10% allocation to rely on the Malabo COVID-19 benchmark of 10% it means that we should have allocated a budget of 2 trillion narrates. And that also means that there is a potential for an gap of 1.8 trillion narrates not less than 1.1 billion. The group also preferred solutions in the form of recommendations. They advocated the creation of emergency funds for the sector. This food and the future of the security is caused by insurgent unbornly grief, farmers pay their prices and when you add wealth across the country that has a great fund and let me do our high post-harvest losses of 3.5 trillion and 1.0 billion, the president needs to currently create a separate emergency fund outside the 2023 agricultural budget to advance the new food crisis. Why don't we invest in farmers? We have smallholder farmers, smallholder women farmers across the country. Why don't we invest in them, track them, support them and ensure that they pay tax so we can generate revenue from that source? Why don't we invest in processing? Why don't we ensure that our security is right? We just got an emergency, we just got flooded just some weeks back here and it affected thousands of farmers. Given the situation we have found ourselves in, with all the crises, the saddest losses, Russia and the Kremlin and so on, and where we have the floods, we have the opinion that the 2023 agricultural budget will not be enough to help us as a country apart from the new food crisis. Stakeholders agreed that the Ministry of Agriculture should focus more on playing the supervisory role while the government pumps more resources into the sector for optimal results. Thank you very much.