The Programme
Phase 1: proven in the field.
NAGS-AP’s first phase turned one dry-season wheat campaign into a national proof of concept delivered through certified outlets and checked three independent ways.
Last-mile outlets delivering Phase 1; The certified agro-dealer network that turned registrations into inputs in farmers' hands.
In November 2023, the Ministry made a wager: that a single dry-season wheat campaign could prove a
national input-delivery system could work. Fourteen months later, the numbers said yes.
Every input moved through Agro-Pocket, the programme’s ICT platform. Farmers registered with their NIN,
were validated against national records, received an e-voucher, and redeemed it at a certified outlet — with
the Secretariat holding a live view of delivery the whole way through.
The phase closed in December 2024. Its results were checked three independent ways — farmer surveys,
satellite mapping and external audit — before NAGS 2.0 took the model to national scale across six crops.
The results
What Phase 1 delivered.
<3% → 10%
national wheat self-sufficiency, 2023 → 2024
6,750 MT
improved wheat seed deployed, imported fromMexico
~0.5M MT
wheat output, 2024 — tripled year on-year
300,000+ ha
wheat area — quadrupled
+30%
crop production increase in participating states
₦2.31tn / 2.5m+ MT
value and volume of produce across four farming seasons