FG Distributes Free Farm Inputs In Niger

The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security has begun distributing escaped cultivation inputs and instrumentality to smallholder farmers successful Niger State arsenic portion of efforts to beforehand year-round farming, boost nutrient accumulation and fortify nutrient and nutrition security.

The inaugural was flagged disconnected connected Friday  astatine the ministry’s Green House bureau successful Minna with beneficiaries that included cooperative groups, women, youths, persons with peculiar needs and internally displaced persons.

Minister of authorities for agriculture and nutrient security, Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, said the organisation was 1 of the strategical policies of President Bola  Tinubu’s medication designed to physique a resilient and sustainable cultivation sector.

“This inaugural reflects our committedness to alteration agriculture into a operator of nutrient availability, accessibility and affordability for each Nigerians.

“We person declared nutrient information a nationalist authorities of exigency and we are determined to marque farming an all-year-round venture,” Abdullahi stated.

The inputs distributed included herbicides, cocoa fertiliser, fungicides, knapsack sprayers, maturation enhancers and herb seeds, arsenic good arsenic powerfulness tillers and h2o pumps.

According to a connection issued by the ministry’s caput of accusation department, Ezeaja Ikemefuna, Abdullahi said the programme would beryllium extended to each 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory nether the government’s Renewed Hope Agenda.

He commended Niger State Governor, Muhammad Umaru Bago, for making agriculture a priority, describing the authorities arsenic a exemplary for implementing national cultivation policies.

Governor Bago, who was contiguous astatine the event, expressed appreciation to President Tinubu for supporting farmers done the national initiative.

He said the argumentation would motivate farmers to beryllium self-sufficient portion contributing to nationalist nutrient security.

The governor  highlighted the state’s caller achievements, including the export of $2.2 cardinal worthy of sesame seeds successful 2025 done the Nigerian Women Police Cooperative successful farming.

He besides announced plans to found sesame processing centers and revive the Cooperative Bank of Niger State with a N2 cardinal superior base, which would service arsenic a microfinance slope to easiness entree to cultivation credit.