Zamfara State has procured assorted
fertilizer worth N4.2billion for this year’s wet
farming season in the state.
Speaking during the launch of fertilizer
distribution to farmers at Magami town in
Gusau Local Government Area, Governor
Yari disclosed that 40,000 metric tons of
assorted fertilizer were procured for 2014
wet farming season in the state.
He warned officials of the ministry saddled
with the responsibility to ensure even
distribution of the commodity to small,
medium and large scale farmers in the state.
The governor reiterated his administration’s
commitment towards ensuring the sales of
fertilizer at the rate of N1,000 per bag.
Earlier, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of
Agriculture, Alhaji Ibrahim Usman Dannabirgi
said his ministry had been striving to improve
the standard of farming in the state.
Dannabirgi maintained that 1,600 tube wells,
wash bores and equivalent water pumps
would be distributed to dry season farmers in
the state.
According to him, the state government, in
collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture,
intends to procure 600 sets of work bulls to
be distributed to farmers in the
state. Source, sun
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