Agric Ministry partners with NIMC to launch NIN-enabled farmer registry and G2P Card initiative 

This was disclosed on Thursday in a statement jointly signed by the Director of Information at the FAMFS and the Head of Corporate Communications at NIMC, Kayode Adegoke.

According to the statement, the innovative project aims to streamline service delivery, enhance transparency, and improve inclusivity as part of the government’s commitment to food security under President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda.

The initiative seeks to address identity and authentication challenges that hinder the effective delivery of government programs to targeted beneficiaries in the agriculture sector.

“Connecting this NIN-backed registry to the G2P card will thereby allow for provision of targeted and ring-fenced aid to the farmers and other recipients of government benefits under the FMAFS programs,” the statement read in part.

According to the statement, the G2P card ecosystem is an initiative that allows for the issuance of NIN-enabled cards by Federal Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAS), and enables the use of the card’s frontend by these MDAs for their respective programs.

“By adopting this card, FMAFS is able to uniquely identify all farmers, provide multiple agriculture services through the card in a manner that eliminates risks and fraud, and also provide end-to-end visibility within the agriculture value chain thus enabling scalability.  

“Agriculture services to be provided through the card include farmer financing, input distribution, farmland mapping linked to identity, extension services monitoring & evaluation, and agency banking as well as multiple types of third party services,” it added.

Within this framework, NIMC will provide the foundational identity ecosystem to FMAFS, who as the owner of both the farmer registry and G2P card scheme will provide government services via the issued G2P cards, tailored to the needs of the farmers supported by the Ministry at the national and sub-national levels.

The G2P card has a large capacity in-card chip that stores beneficiary identity, know your customer (KYC), picture, and fingerprints.

In addition, it has two applets and several wallets dedicated to multiple types of programs, which provides needed flexibility and channels for multiple interventions to be implemented against the same unique identity.

Aside from the G2P card initiative, NIMC is also planning to roll out a general multipurpose ID card powered by a Nigerian card company, AFRIGO.

According to the federal government, the issuance of this card which serves dual purposes of identification and financial transactions is one of the key policies that will shape the country in 2025.