Kwara govt facilitates CBN support for local rice farmers

Date: 2020-12-21

Kwara State Government has facilitated the disbursement of N115m by the Central Bank of Nigeria to local rice farmers to cultivate 420 hectares of land for the 2020/2021 dry season farming in the state, an official has said.

Technical Assistant to the Governor on Agriculture AbdulQuawiy Olododo said the government was able to help the farmers because their umbrella body was properly organised and proactive.

"We call on other cooperatives across the state to emulate what the agribusiness farmers cooperatives have done so has to support the state government efforts in the agriculture sector," Olododo said at a training programme for dry season rice production organised by Agribusiness Farmers Cooperative Associative Limited.

He urged the beneficiaries to make good use of the opportunity so that other people can also benefit from similar support from the government.

"As part of the efforts of the Kwara state government to ensure our farmers benefit from more of such interventions from the CBN, the government has decided to address the issue of land development. Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has therefore approved the purchase of new bulldozers to support land clearing for farmers across the state," he said.

For President of Kwara State Agribusiness Farmers Cooperative Associative Limited Hon. Baba Sanni commended the state government for its interventions in agricultural sector and sought further support for Agribusiness Farmers as the state begins to unfold more agricultural programmes.

"The training is one of the steps that we must take if we must do all things to make us succeed. Let me disclose that about 210 farmers are involved in this programme which will produce 420 hectares of dry season rice involving about N115m," he said.

"We thank the state for the last tractorization programme of this year wet season. Our association was part of the project, and we thank God that from records available to the Technical Assistant, our association performed very well. If any other opportunity comes, we want the Technical Assistant to involve our Association inside-out."

Sanni said the association has acquired over 3000 hectares of land at Oro-Ago in Ifelodun LGA of Kwara South, and 1000 hectares each in Kaiama and Owode Oja in Kwara north and central respectively, and appealed to the government to assist in clearing the lands as serious farming cannot be done without clear land.

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Shehu Salau     Habeeb Saidu     Fulani     Oba Abdulraheem     Christian Association Of Nigeria     Raimi Iyanda     Durbar     BECE     Taibat Ayinke Ahmed     Bashir Adigun     Alfa Yahaya Road     ASKOMP     Ahmad Ali     IESA     Lawyers Unite Against Corruption     Theophilus Oyebiyi     ARMTI     Saudat Abdulbaqi     Shade Omoniyi     Titus Ashaolu     Playing Host     Abdulrahman Iliasu     Suleiman Rotimi Iliasu     KWSIEC     Kwara United     Kuliyan Geri     Kayode Laro     Atiku Abubakar     Kehinde Baale     Ibrahim Kayode Adeyemi     AbdulGafar Tosho     Okala Baba     Ayobami Seriki     Aishat Mohammed Lawal     Mohammed Lawal Bagega     Aliyu Olatunji Ajanaku     Charles Ibitoye     Adewuyi Funmilayo     MAI Akande     Yusuf Amuda Gobir     TIC     Ilesha Gwanara Road     Sulu Gambari     Susan Modupe Oluwole     College Of Education     Share-Tsaragi     Muslim Cementary     Olaitan Adefila     IHS     Prince Bola Ajibola     Oluwarotimi Boluwatife Adenike     Ella Supreme Tissue Paper     Abdul Jimoh Mohammed     NFAI     Sheriff Olanrewaju     Ayinde Oki     Olomu     Christopher Odetunde     Mahfouz Adedimeji     Umar Yakubu Jaja     Kayode Bankole     Hassan Abdulazeez Elewu     Kwara South     KWTV     Rebecca Olanrewaju     JMK Construction Company Limited     Ejidongari     Shuaibu Yaman Abdullahi     Henry Makinwa     Ibrahim Oloriegbe     Unilorin     International Public Sector Accounting Standards     Aisha Ahman-Pategi     Onilupeju Of Ilupeju     Sabi     Abdullah Janet Amudat     Nupe    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Ella Supreme Tissue Paper     Kola Shittu     Mohammed Yahaya Barki     Yakubu Mohammed Abdullahi     Chartered Institute Of Personnel Management Of Nigeria     Mohammed Danjuma     Abdullahi G. Mohammad     NURTW     Share     Elections     Budo-Egba     Admiralty Villa     Salihu Yahaya     Onilorin     Borgu     Sulyman Abdulkareem     Kwara TV     07039448763     NYSC     Dan Masanin     Musbau A. Akanji     Haruna Olawale Sulaiman     Abdulfatah Ahmed     Special Agro-Industrial Hub     Alore     Olaosebikan     Moji Makanjuola     Dunmade     IESA     Yahaya Muhammad     Abubakar Abdullahi Bata     Toyin Abdullahi     Ganmo     Sa\'ad Alanamu     Yahaya Seriki     Vasolar     Tuesday Assayomo     Timothy Akangbe     M.Y. Abdulrahaman     Ayodele Olaosebikan     Abdulwahab Olarewaju Issa     Oba Abu     Sunday Popo-Ola     Jelili Yusuf     Fatimoh Lawal     Majlis For Sadakah, Zakat And Waqf     Suleiman Yahya Alapansapa     Fatimat Saliu     John Kehinde Salako     Kwara Consultative Forum     Yoonus Lawal     Mansur Alfanla     Iqra Books     Adesoye     Ishola Moses Abiodun     Federal Road Maintenance Agency     Ghali Alaaya     Henry Makinwa     FOMWAN     Christopher Odetunde     Ministry Of Women Affairs And Social Development     Tafidan Kaiama     Just Event Online     Wahab Abayawo     Yakubu Gobir     Azeez Salawu     Okin High School     Asa     Rotimi Atere     Awwal Jawondo     Gbemisola Oguntimehin     N-Power     Sa\'adu Salau     Muhammad Ghali Alaaya     Ahmed \'Lateef     Kwara Poly     CACOVID Palliatives