FG distributes farm inputs to 6,000 Kano wheat farmers 

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FG distributes farm inputs to 6,000 Kano wheat farmers

The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security has distributed agriculture inputs to 6,000 wheat farmers in Kano State,as part of the government’s efforts to boost food security in the country.
Launching the programme at Alkamawa in Bunkure Local Government Area (LGA) of the state, the State Coordinator of the ministry, Malam Isa Hotoro, said that it was a special programme to capture small holder farmers, medium and large scale farmers in wheat production.
He said that each farmer, especially the small holder farmer,was given three bags of fertilizers and one 50 kilogramme bag of wheat seeds, across 12 special cluster centres in the state.
Hotoro said the programme was aimed at boosting the wheat farmers’s productivity and the nation’s “food basket.”

He said the programme is covering 3,000 hectares in the 12 special clusters in Alkamawa in Bunkure LGA, as well as in Ajingi,Gaya and Garko LGAs.

He said the inputs were given to the farmers at 75 per cent subsidy by the Federal Government, while the farmers would pay 25 per cent of the cost of the inputs i.e. N111,000.

In his remarks at the occasion,the Chairman of Gaya Emirate Farmers Association, Alhaji Yakubu Ibrahim, commended the Federal Government for the intervention which he said would boost wheat production in the state.

“Before the coming of this support, many of us had reduced production due to high prices of fuel and fertilizers,but with this intervention,we would resume our normal wheat farming activities,” Ibrahim said.

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