The Federal government will today flag off the 2023/2024 dry season farming in Jigawa State.
This is part of measures to combat food inflation in the country and as a direct response to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s declaration of emergency on food security earlier in July this year.
The Hon. Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Sen. Abubakar Kyari, who made this known in a statement by his Technical Advisor (Strategic Communication), Kingsley Osadolor, said the government would also be subsidizing agricultural inputs by 50 percent.
According to the statement, the Minister will lead several other dignitaries to Hadejia, Jigawa State, where the ceremony will take place. A range of agricultural inputs, including seeds, fertilizer, herbicides, and pesticides, will be delivered to farmers at the occasion.
The Nation learned that the 2023/2024 dry season farming is being boosted by an African Development Bank facility and implemented under the National Agricultural Growth Scheme and Agro-Pocket (NAGS-AP) project.
The implementation is ICT-driven with earlier steps taken to geo-locate farmlands, enumerate, register, and cluster no fewer than 250,000 farmers.
The dry season farming is expected to take place in all the 36 states of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory. One critical requirement among others is availability of irrigable land where the dry season farming will take place.
