Governor Umar Bago of Niger State has disclosed that farmers within the state now want to return to their farms, saying most of them are already again to farm.
Bago added that he had provided to pilot the deliberate 500,000 hectares of agricultural manufacturing introduced by President Bola Tinubu in his New 12 months message.
Bago stated this in an announcement on Sunday after assembly with Nigeria President in Abuja.
He stated Niger State was now the main state when it comes to meals safety initiative of the president because it had already began the implementation of 250,000 hectares dry season farming.
“We’ve already signed an settlement with some corporations for off-take and simply to maintain him in control with what we’re doing in agriculture,” he stated on his go to to the president.
”The president’s New 12 months’s speech laid emphasis on agriculture and likewise the five hundred,000 hectares the federal government is planning to farm this 2024.
“Niger State has additionally offered itself as a pilot state for that mission, and that we’re additionally bold to additionally match with the Federal Authorities 500,000 for 500,000.”
He stated the president was optimistic about it, including that he was delighted with what the state was doing (NAN) www.nannews.ng