FG Flags-off Dry Season Farming Today

The federal government will officially flag off the 2023/2024 dry season farming today.

Minister of agriculture and food security,  Abubakar Kyari, is expected to lead dignitaries to Hadejia, Jigawa State for the ceremony.

A statement by the technical adviser, strategic communication in the ministry, Kingsley Osadolor, said a range of agricultural inputs including seeds, fertilizer, herbicides and pesticides would be delivered to farmers at the occasion.

It said the federal government would subsidise the agricultural inputs by 50 per cent for farmers.

The 2023/2024 dry season farming is being boosted by an African Development Bank facility and implemented under the National Agricultural Growth Scheme and Agro-Pocket (NAGS-AP) project.

Osadolor noted that the move is part of measures to combat food inflation in the country and a direct response to President Bola Tinubu’s declaration of emergency on food security earlier in July.

The dry season farming is expected to take place in all the 36 states of the federation and the FCT. Kyari has described the flag-off as a milestone in realizing the Renewed Hope Agenda.