From Ahmad Mohammed, Bauchi
Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State on Sunday flagged off the 2021 Crop Demonstration Packages with two thousand farmers selected to benefit from the package to enable them cultivate a quarter of a hectare of either improved maize, rice, soybean and millet.
The governor also flagged off the local poultry upgrading, small ruminants breeding, livestock feed alternative using Napier Grass and three crop seedlings program where farmers in the twenty local government areas of the state will benefit from one to five of the newly improved crop varieties.
Speaking at the occasion held at BSADP headquarters in Bauchi, Governor Bala Mohammed said his administration had placed a premium on agriculture not only as means of food production, but for economic empowerment.
He said 2000 livestock farmers will also benefit from the newly introduced Napier Grass cuttings, while twenty communities will benefit from the local poultry upgrading using noiler cocks.
