370 Farmers To Benefit From First Lady’s Agric Initiative

A total of 370 farmers across the country are to benefit from the intervention of Renewed Hope Initiative, an Initiative of first lady, Mrs Remi  Tinubu, in the agricultural sector.

The intervention include distribution of seedlings, pesticides and fertiliser to between 15 and 20 farmers per state, making a total of 370.

According to a statement by her media aide, Busola Kukoyi, this is one of the key resolutions at the meeting of zonal coordinators of the initiative with the national president and convener of the initiative.

She said other interventions in the sector include a proposal to encourage the establishment of farm markets in strategic locations and home gardens among Nigerians towards facilitating easy access to fresh farm produce.

She said; “In health, another key intervention area for the initiative, a partnership with the UNICEF to streamline and sanitise the process of birth registration is being worked out. The same partnership is also to be explored to promote immunisation towards stamping out polio.”

The first lady called on the zonal coordinators to be at the vanguard of the process in their respective domains, urging them to be part of the immunisation process.

Zonal coordinators of the RHI are drawn from among state governors’ wives in the six geopolitical zones of the country.