Kwara State government has flagged off distribution of 42,000 bags of fertiliser to farmers across the state as part of efforts to ensure bumper harvest and promote food security.
The fertiliser bags were donated to the state government by the Central Bank of Nigeria through the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security.
The senior special assistant to Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on community development, Dr Lawal Olohungbebe, who supervised the distribution, said each farmer would get at least three free bags.
“This is a federal government intervention that complements what the state government has already done on three different occasions.
“Here we have 50 trucks of NPK fertiliser and 20 trucks of urea donated by the CBN through the ministry to the people of Kwara State,” he told reporters in Ilorin at the flag off ceremony.
