Gov. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal |
As
part of effort to enhance mechanized farming, the Governor, RT. Hon. Aminu Waziri
Tambuwal has announced that 30 tractors be released to farmers in the three
senatorial districts of the state towards boosting food productivity under
Fadama 111 Additional Financing (AF) programme.
Gov.
Aminu Waziri Tambuwal made this known at Kware local government area on
Thursday while inspecting the agricultural processing machines that are meant
to be distributed to farmers under the state Fadama III AF programme.
The
Governor said that “We are starting
with 30 tractors with each of the three senatorial districts issued with 10
tractors each. This initiative will be implemented with
the collaboration of the Fadama III coordinating office, the state Ministry of
Agriculture and the state investment company which will provide the tractors.”
He
said that a strict vetting process would be implemented for beneficiaries, to
ensure that small and large-scale farmers were able to access the tractors and
other farming equipment saying “We hope to expand
the scheme to ensure we have enough tractors to help our farmers have access to
modern farm tools at affordable prices”
Tambuwal
said that 127 processing groups, comprising 1,385 smallholder farmers, had
benefited from the agricultural processing machines and equipment distributed
to farmers across the state by the Fadama III office.
The
Governor said 11 tomato production net houses have been established at various
location in the state pointed that “This gesture is part of our collective efforts
towards modernizing our farming techniques to improve yield and income of our farmers”
He
added that 243 unemployed youths had been trained to explore the agribusiness
sub-sector pointing the training of them with women would enhance their
technical and practical skills towards competiveness in agric-preneurship.
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