Jigawa Gets More Agric Extension Workers

In enactment with its ambitious cultivation mechanisation policy, the medication of Governor Malam Umar Namadi has accrued the fig of Agricultural Extension Workers successful Jigawa State from 300 to 2,000 successful little than 2 years.

This was revealed by the director-general of the Jigawa Agricultural Mechanisation Agency, Dr Saifullahi Umar, astatine the motorboat of the “Harvest Hope Caravan,” a national authorities inaugural to beforehand cultivation security and hazard management, held successful Dutse, the authorities capital.

Dr Saifullahi noted that since assuming office, Governor Namadi has placed peculiar precedence connected cultivation transformation, and arsenic a result, the authorities is present a cardinal subordinate successful promoting nationalist nutrient security.

According to him, the hold workers person been empowered with the indispensable skills and instrumentality for cultivation information procreation and for spreading caller farming techniques to agrarian farmers to heighten productivity.

“The authorities authorities has besides procured implicit 300 tractors, 60 harvester harvesters and hundreds of different workplace implements to execute cultivation mechanisation and alteration the strategy from subsistence to commercialized farming.

“We are assuring the national authorities that our authorities volition stay committed to implementing immoderate argumentation designed to amended the cultivation sector, execute nationalist nutrient security, make jobs and eradicate poverty,” Saifullahi stated.

The enforcement caput of the Presidential Food Security Coordinating Unit, Mrs Maria Moon, said the task aims to conscionable with agrarian farmers and enlighten them connected the value of security and different cultivation hazard absorption strategies.

She noted that to execute sustainable nutrient security, authorities indispensable look beyond expanding production. “The extortion of some the merchandise and the accumulation process is besides key.

“In presumption of that, the national authorities launched this ‘Harvest Hope Caravan’ initiative. Jigawa State is among the selected aviator states owed to its relation arsenic a large subordinate successful nationalist nutrient security, coupled with the authorities government’s applicable and sincere committedness to transforming the sector.

“We convey the Jigawa State authorities for demonstrating its support, which has been important for the palmy implementation of this project. This aligns with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda,” Mrs Moon stated.