The Niger State Governor, Mr Umar Bago, has stated farmers now want to return to their farms within the state, including that the majority of them are already again of their farms.
Bago stated 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 made this recognized in a press release on Sunday after assembly with Nigeria President in Abuja.
He stated Niger State was now the main state by way of the meals safety initiative of the president because it had already began the implementation of 250,000 hectares of dry season farming.
“We’ve already signed an settlement with some corporations for off-take and simply to maintain him on top of things 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 supplied itself as a pilot state for that venture and we’re additionally formidable to additionally match with the Federal Authorities 500,000 for 500,000.”
He stated the president was constructive about it, including that he was delighted with what the state was doing