 The representative of the Brazilian Minister of Agriculture and Livestock Supply, the Vice Minister of Agriculture of Brazil, and His Excellency the Brazilian Ambassador to Nigeria, Ambassador Ricardo Guerra de Araujo, distinguished participants, leaders and gentlemen. It's my pleasure to welcome you to this Citizen's Dialogue on the Green Imperative Project. As you've heard already, this is a bilateral initiative that was embarked upon at the commencement of the first tenure of the Buhari administration in June 2016 with the Federative Republic of Brazil. This is in fact the second large stakeholder engagement that we're having on this very important project, just to be sure that the general public fully understands and that private sector businesses are able to benefit from this very important project. The first engagement with the private sector was in June, it was in January 2019, shortly after the project was officially launched, as one of the flagship projects of Mr. President towards achieving food security, economic diversification and job creation. Subsequently, the project was approved by the Federal Executive Council in May 2020. Today's engagement with a wide selection of entrepreneurs, corporate entities, farmer groups, local financial service organizations, and several individuals who are interested in the various projects on agriculture is even more important for us as this is one which precedes the National Assembly's consideration of a grant of an approval for this project. The Green Imperative Project, or GIP as is in the short form, is as you've also heard a 995 million euro in-kind equipment loan between the Brazilian government and the Nigerian government. It's a loan to support private sector implementing partners of the project and it is an in-kind loan, it's not a loan in cash. The idea is to create market-oriented private sector-driven mechanization and agro-processing service centers in the local governments across Nigeria. So the service centers will comprise of 632 type I service centers and this will offer primary production mechanization services to farmers. And then there's 142 type II service centers that will provide processing and value addition of farm produce resulting from the type I service center activities. So the type II centers feed into the type I service centers. The benefits of the project will include farm mechanization, extension services, providing best practice in farming methods, improved inputs, seeds, fertilizers and pesticides, crop processing facilities, distribution systems, haulage and transport services, logistics and storage services, technical assistance and support services and then of course information and communicative technology and of course access to finance. Just as you've heard also where we expect that at least 5 million jobs will be created in the 10-year period with a total output per hectare of land increasing by almost 4 times the current output per hectare. The project is funded through the Brazilian Development Bank and the Georgia Bank and it's insured by the Islamic Development Bank. I see that the technical session that follows shortly is planned to provide citizens with as much information and details on the project as is possible and I'd like to thank all our partners who will be discussing the implementation details of the project and I'd like to also encourage you all to make the very best of this opportunity to have your questions and concerns addressed. So it's now my very special pleasure and privilege to declare this webinar open. Thank you very much.