In its determination to encourage massive food production in Bauchi State, the State Government is to unbundle all the forests locked as a result of security challenges in some parts of the state.
Similarly, it assured adequate security provision for farmers to gain access to their farmlands without fear of criminals.
The State Governor Bala Mohammed made the commitment while inaugurating the 2024 farming season and official sales of fertilizer in Dass Local Government area of the state.
Governor Bala Mohammed who emphasized that his administration accorded the needed priority to agricultural sector also, used the opportunity to launch sixty new tractors, modern farming machines procured to encourage mechanized farming.
Additionally, the government also provides financial support of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to selected farmers' corporative societies across the state.
He announced the official price of 50kg NPK fertilizer as twenty thousand naira as against it current market price of over twenty six thousand naira.
Earlier in his address, the state commissioner Ministry of Agriculture Prof. Simon Madugu Yelams says the ministry has taken effective measures aimed at ensuring availability of the fertilizer in all strategic locations for farmers to access the product without difficulties.
CREDIT: Isiyaka Ismail Wunti
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