women leader of the All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), Imo State Chapter, Mrs. Ijeoma Nwankuku |
A women
leader of the All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), Imo State Chapter,
Mrs. Ijeoma Nwankuku has decried the presidential fertilizer distribution
strategy to farmers as not effective as many could not get the item with all
other agricultural inputs. She said this at the 43rd National
Council of Agriculture and Rural Development held in Umuahia, Abia State.
Mrs Nwankuku
said that the information fertilizer distribution was not properly dispersed in
the state, thereby leading to many farmers not being a beneficiary, adding that
AFAN members have never got any of the equipment's and inputs promised by the
Federal Government (FG) in the state.
The women
leader urged the FG to monitor the process used in the distribution to farmers
in order to prevent the subsidy not being
ended in the hands of political
farmers adding that the challenges faced
by members was already discouraging from farming.
She advised government
to adopt AFAN into the presidential fertilizer initiatives programme saying
this would enhance the wide spread of inputs to other members across the states
and thereby ensuring food security.
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