The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security has distributed agricultural inputs to 6,000 wheat farmers in Kano State at a subsidized rate.
The inputs were provided to the farmers at a 75 percent subsidy by the federal government, allowing the benefiting farmers to pay only 25 percent of the cost of the inputs – about N111,000.
The distribution was launched at the Aggregation Centre, Alkamawa, Bunkure Local Government Area of Kano State.
The Minister for Agriculture, Abubakar Kyari, represented by the State Coordinator of the Ministry, Isa Hotoro, stated that the intervention was part of the federal government’s efforts to enhance food security across the country.
Hotoro mentioned that, under the intervention, each smallholder farmer has been given three bags of fertiliser (Urea and NPK) and a 50 kg bag of wheat seeds across 12 special cluster centres in Kano State.
“This is a special programme initiated to support smallholder farmers, medium, and large-scale farmers who produce wheat.
“The programme is aimed at boosting wheat farmers’ productivity and the nation’s food basket,” he said.
