The
chairman, Alhaji Muda Bebeji has sufficiently supported farmers in the local
government with agricultural inputs worth two hundred and fifty million naira
just as the state irrigation project located in the area has being a veritable
source of water for farming throughout the year.
Speaking
with the Head of Agriculture (HOD) Bebeji local government area of Kano state,
Alhaji Umar Dakinkowa said the government of Dr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso and the
chairman of the council have assisted farmers with agricultural inputs that
have resulted to pumper harvest saying “farmers are well exposed to extension
training of Good Agricultural Practice (GAP) which they replicated in their
farms for better yield.
The HOD told food farm news at the Nazarawa Agric show that “the state and local
government chairman are assisting us in so many ways. Whenever we write a
request for farmers’ assistance by provision of improved inputs of water pumps,
farming equipments, herbicide, pesticide, fertilizer and the rest, we are never
turn down as we are giving permission to buy them. This year we purchase inputs
worth N250 million for farmers. We are enjoying all the year round farming
especially with the state government project of irrigation where about 35
hectares of land was purchased for improving on the dry season farming”
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