6,000 maize farmers to cultivate 30,000 hectares in Jigawa – Association

Fri, Nov 30, 2018 | By publisher


Agriculture

The Jigawa Chapter of the Maize Farmers Association of Nigeria on Friday said its 6,000 members would cultivate 30,000 hectares of land during the 2019 dry season farming.

Alhaji Yusuf Hassan, Chairman of the association, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Hadejia.

“These 6,000 maize farmers are the only farmers registered by us. The figures do not represent the state’s entire maize farmers, which are over 100, 000,” he said.

According to Hassan, the 6,000 farmers will be represented by 30 cooperatives registered under the state’s Dry Season Farming Support Programme.

He noted that maize farmers had cultivated over 528, 000 farmlands in the state during the rainy season.

Hassan, however, said that over 650 maize farms were destroyed by the September flooding.
The chairman commended the Federal Government for facilitating different farmer support schemes, especially the Anchor Borrowers’ scheme.

He described government’s intervention as a success, as it aided mass cultivation and harvests in 2017 and 2018. (NAN)

 

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