Adamawa govt allocates 1,500 hectares of land in 5 LGA’s for massive agricultural production

From Umar Dankano, Yola

In its effort to boost agricultural production and ensure food security, the Adamawa state government has set up a committee to work out strategies for massive agricultural production in the state.
Special Adviser on Agriculture to Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, Dr. Thakma Sini Amos made the disclosure in Yola Weekend at a news briefing stressing that, five local government areas have been earmarked for the take off of the pilot agricultural activity on approximate one thousand five hundred(1,500) hectares of land across the LGAs.
Amos said the government is aware of the effects of climate change as it negate food security and therefore declared to provide three hundred hectares of land in the five-six pilot LGA’s for massive production of agricultural products
Amos explained that, the government will also before the commencement of this year’s farming season make available improved seedlings and fertilizer that will meet up the soil demands having being affected by harmful effects of environmental change
“To propelled the project for a robust food security in the state,a committee has been constituted by the government to draw a road map on Agriculture and workable modalities for its implementation.”