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The women expressed
concern in a communiqué issued at the end of a one day budget tracking
meeting of women farmers organised by Fahimta Women and Youth
Development Initiative, Bauchi, in partnership with ActionAid Nigeria.
They also
identified late distribution of inputs like high yielding seeds,
fertilisers and insecticides as other major factors that could frustrate
farmers' efforts to boost both rain-fed and dry season farming in the
state.
Some of the women,
Rifkatu Magaji from Warji Local Government Area and Rhoda Haruna from
Bogoro Local Government Area, who spoke at the meeting, said that some
of the seeds distributed in their communities were not high yielding
varieties.
They said crops that were slated for maturity within three months might take longer to mature.
Other women farmers
re-echoed their earlier request for the training and retraining of more
extension workers while those already on ground in the communities
should be given logistic support to advise farmers on modern farming
methods.
While speaking on
the agricultural loan scheme, most of the women complained that delay in
the disbursement of loans which was always granted farmers in July as
against March/April was also hampering farmers' efforts to purchase all
the necessary inputs on time.
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