Adamawa Government Moves To Support Farmers With Farm Inputs Worth N2 Billion

Hanny Henry

As farmers prepare for the forthcoming farming season, the Adamawa State government has taken significant steps to boost the agricultural sector by providing farmers with essential farm inputs. This initiative aims to enhance food production, promote self-reliance, and empower local farmers.

This disclosure was made by M.D Jattau, Commissioner for Agriculture during an interview with the press, he disclosed that the initiative is expected to increase crop yields, improve food security, and enhance the livelihoods of farmers in Adamawa State, by providing essential support to farmers.

Jattau further stated that the state government has already launched a policy to develop 300 hectares of land in each local government, to allocate to 300 youths to manage within the 21 local governments, where fertilizers, seeds, and pesticides will be given to them and at the end of the season, whatever yield they realize will be theirs, nobody will be tasked to remit.

Stressing that farmers Will also be taught climate-smart agriculture, where they will be equipped with the practices needed for bountiful harvests, such as the timing of planting, fertilizer application, how to test the soil to determine the soil content and the quantity or quality of fertilizer to apply to give optimum yield, and how to manage their farms in accordance with the kind of crops in their farms.

The government aims to promote agricultural development and contribute to the state’s economic growth, the program has been implemented in 6 local government areas, Madagali, Maiha, Michika, Hong, Ganye, and Demsa, he added.

 “All the violence we are experiencing is as a result of hunger, a hungry man is an angry man and can do anything when given a stipend

Many youths want to go to the farm but they lack capital, that’s why Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintri has come out to intervene by providing them with inputs

By the time there is food on their table, we have been able to curb a monster called hunger, and another problem is solved which is good security”.

While speaking on staple food crashing, Jattau attributed it to a common economic principle which states that ” the higher the demand, the higher the price, the lower the demand, the lower the price”, stressing that there are fewer buyers now in the market and the suppliers are much.

He noted that farmers still have enough to eat with their families and no farmer would want to sell now because they are fully aware that they will not break even.

He said the government has supported farmers in different folds, supplying fertilizer, seeds, and pesticides, this time around farmers Will be given this support in time, 10000 bags of assorted fertilizers are already on the ground and will be supplied.

Adding that the government is in partnership with NGOs with similar programs and will be directed to order local governments that are yet to benefit from the program, he pointed out the support gotten from the North East Development Commission (NEDC) provided to handheld types of machinery, harvesters, and planters.