NEDC, Group Donates Farm Inputs to 4,200 Farmers in Bauchi

Segun Awofadeji in Bauchi

The North East Development Commission (NEDC), through 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 the farm inputs on Sunday in Katagum. 

He said the distribution of the items was in line with President Bola Tinubu administration’s efforts at boosting food production to achieve food security 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, 3-inch water pump, liquid fertilizer, and agrochemicals and improved 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 the inputs and implements would positively impact farming 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 Tinubu is committed to achieving the federal government food security programme.

Speaking earlier, Contact Persons of Tafawa Balewa local government, Dr. Yusuf Magalam, promised to support the present administration of Bola Ahmad Tinubu 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 operations.

Another beneficiary, Malam Saidu Yana, from Shira Local Government Area 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 foods for Nigeria’s population.