An independent NCPB will be commercially viable, efficient

By Benjamin Yator

According to National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) website, it offers services at its depots and silos countrywide. It procures, manages and markets grains. It provides farmers with high quality products and services at competitive prices. The commercial role of NCPB is grain trading. Other additional services include: Leasing out surplus facilities, grain drying, weighing, fumigation, grain cleaning, grading, warehousing, and bagging at silos and clearing and forwarding. The latest addition to its services is the warehousing receipting system. Under the system, farmers deliver grain to a warehouse and are issued with a receipt they can use as collateral to borrow money from the bank, while they also wait for the prices to go up before selling their produce.