Bagudu Plan Support Programme For Farmers, Receives Award On Wheat Value Chain Development

Bagudu Plan Support Programme For Farmers, Receives Award On Wheat Value Chain Development
Kebbi State Government says it will support and assist farmers in the state to improve their yield and income, aimed at cultivating about 10,000 hectares from the 3,000 hectares cultivated last year.
Governor Abubakar Atiku Bagudu gave this assurance to farmers in Kebbi State during this year's Wheat Field Day Programme in Alkamawa town of Kano State at the weekend, which was organised by the Lake Chad Research Institute.
The governor who stated that the main policy thrust of his administration in the agricultural sector was to empower the farmers and take advantage of the fertile land in Kebbi by translating such into employment generating opportunities for the teeming youths, improved Internally generated revenue for the state, said it was in realization of this that his administration since inception expended the sum of N500 million on fertilizers, N180 million on water pumping machines and N107 million on the procurement of seedlings for farmers in Kebbi State.
Bagudu also charged all stakeholders in the country, especially various research institutes to come out with clear-cut policies aimed at assisting farmers improve their output and to enable them have quality and improved seeds favourable to our climatic conditions to avoid loss during planting arising from bad seedlings.
Highlights of the occasion was the presentation of two awards to Governor Bagudu by the Lake Chad Research Institute through the Honourable Minister of Agriculture Mr Audu Ogbe, in recognition of his support to wheat value chain development in Nigeria.
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