No fewer than 13,600 out of the 94,500 agric inputs beneficiaries are to be provided with crops, aquaculture and poultry, while 30,000 individuals from Internally Displaced Camps and flood victims will benefit from food assistance, under the Agric Inputs in Niger State.
The State Project Coordinator, FADAMA N-CARES, Shehu Kudu, revealed this at the flag-off of the 2024 agricultural inputs and asset distribution to poor farmers across the 25 local government areas of Niger State.
The essence of the initiative, according to FADAMA N-CARES, is to enhance the government’s capacity to support vulnerable families, and facilitate the recovery of local economic activities.
The Acting Governor, Yakubu Garba, while flagging off the exercise, disclosed that the intervention will have 94,500 beneficiaries who will be supported with agricultural inputs, assets and small primary processing equipment, while an additional 37,500 farmers will have access to improved agricultural infrastructure, with 30 markets to be rehabilitated.
This, according to him, is to bring about a bumper harvest at the end of the current farming season.
The Commissioner for Agriculture, Bawa Bosso, explained that the distribution of inputs and assets to farmers is apt, as the rains have just resumed, after a long break, calling on beneficiaries to make good use of the agro-inputs, to regain the losses made during the initial distributions.
The agricultural inputs and assets distributed are tractors, fertilisers, chemicals, seedlings and grinding machines.
(Editor: Ebuwa Omo-Osagie)
