 The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, together with Oxfam, have taken the future of agricultural advancement amongst women in Nigeria to the next level. The collaboration this year took the firm of an annual Female Hero Award to deserving and hardworking women to encourage more participation of women in agriculture. Emmanuel Ehejene completes this report. It was a gathering of mostly women who have embraced agriculture as a profession, as well as those who have taken it as a source of daily income to cater for their families. The Mish-eaters spoke glomely about the annual Women Hero Award, while explaining why it is necessary for the advancement of women and the benefit to the nation in general. The Obonga women have served as great ambassadors and representatives of millions of women are different for us. At the community level, as part participants, they have also mobilized women to engage their traditional rulers on access to land. They have also represented the country in places like the African Union, Ekoas and the European Union meetings, including engagement with the U.S. Congress members to advocate for favorable policies that affect them. However, they see a lot to be done by government and the private sector in terms of concrete actions to ensure that the rights and the interests of women, farmers and food and agricultural workers are prioritized and that they have resources that they need for their livelihood. Here, the federal means of agricultural development in an effort and commitment to promote gender inclusiveness, flag off and roll out agricultural imputes to small-holder women farmers as a palliative to cushion the effect of COVID-19 pandemic in the FCT. Can you also mention there are plans out there to donate more farm imputes to our female farmers in the country in order to empower them, strengthen their economic independence and increase their engagement in agriculture, thereby boosting their livelihood and enhancing the drive to full security. In their goodwill messages, representatives of Obonga women appreciated the ministry and asked them for the support and contribution to women. We cannot overemphasize the role of women farmers and the work they are doing trying to feed the nation, but, you know, their livelihoods are still not being improved. So as stakeholders, as governments, what can we do differently to improve the livelihoods of small-holder women farmers? What can we do to encourage them to keep feeding us? Because they take over 70% of the labor force in agricultural production, but little or nothing is being given to, you know, to encourage them in terms of access to farm imputes, in terms of credits, facilities, in terms of storage. So we need to put our hands together. We need to work together to see how these women can have a better and improved livelihood. Twelve outstanding women were selected for the annual Women Hero Award after which three emerged with us.