Yobe State governor, Hon Mai Mala Buni, has flagged off the distribution of agricultural inputs to 1,000 farming households and displaced residents of Mallam Dunari and their host communities.
Governor Buni disclosed this at the Government House, Damaturu, where development partners from the EU and Swiss government officials attended.
According to him, the distribution aims to bolster agricultural productivity and support the livelihoods of vulnerable households.
He said that “each beneficiary will receive insecticides, sprayers, hoes, and cutlasses for the rainy season, while dry-season farmers will receive water pumps, improved seeds, fertilisers, and other essential inputs.
He described the people of Mallam Dunari as the only community remaining to be resettled; each beneficiary will go home with hoes, knapsack sprayers, and cutlasses for rainy-season farming.
He added that, “the dry-season farmers will get water pumps, improved seeds for onions, tomatoes, cabbage, pepper, rice, lettuce, and carrots, knapsack sprayers and watering pipes, fertilisers, among other things,” said Buni.
Governor Buni said his administration has invested over 4 billion in agricultural Empowerment across 178 Wards in the state.
He noted that the government has procured tractors, fertilisers, and inputs to enhance productivity and food security.
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