NEDC Group donates farm inputs to 4,200 farmers in Bauchi.
By Ahmed Ahmed
The North East Development Commission (NEDC), through the LOBITO group for Asiwaju, has donated farm inputs and implements to 4,200 farmers across twenty local government areas of Bauchi State to boost food security.
Mr. Sulaiman Aliyu, representative of the Commission, stated this at the inauguration of the distribution of farm inputs on Sunday in Katagum.
He said the distribution of the items was in line with the Bola Tinubu administration’s efforts at boosting food production to achieve food insecurity in the country.
Aliyu said the commission was collaborating with the LOBITO group and other stakeholders to support the farmers directly in order to boost dry-season farming and rain-fed farming.
The items donated include a 3-inch water pump, liquid fertiliser, and agrochemicals. Improve the seeds of maize and rice.
LOBITO Coordinator in Bauchi, Mr. Usman Darazo, said the items would be distributed through the LOBITO structures and stakeholders to 4,200 farmers across the state.
Darazo further said the gesture was mainly for grassroots farmers across three senatorial districts of the state through the group, respectively, urging the beneficiaries to utilise the items judiciously.
The coordinator lauded the commission for the gesture, saying that the inputs and implements would impact farming positively as well as tackling food security.
The state chairman of LOBITO Group, Alhaji Abdullahi Idris Lanzai, said the aim is to support farmers to get bumper harvests.
While commending the LOBITO National Chairman, Alhaji Yau Darazo, for championing the course of farmers in the state, Alhaji Abdullahi Lanzai said the present administration under Ahmed Bola Tinibu is committed to achieving the federal government food security programme.
Earlier speaking, the contact person of the Tafawa Balewa local government, Dr. Yusuf Magalam, promised to support the present administration of Bola Ahmad Tinibu to achieve his renewed hope agenda.
Some of the beneficiaries spoke to Aliko Musa Umar and Nbami Masoyi, who thanked the donors for the gesture and pledged to use it to boost their farming operation.
Another beneficiary, Malam Saidu Yana, from Shira Local Government, said the gesture has come at the right time as farmers commence farm clearing.
He said the gesture shows that the Bola Tinubu-led administration is battle-ready for the food crisis in the country.
He assured that the beneficiaries would make good use of the inputs to produce more food for the Nigerian population.
