Bauchi State Governor, Senator Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed has launched the sale of 2022 fertilizer and inputs at BSADP Nabardo, Toro Local Government Area of the state.
Speaking, Mohammed said his administration will ensure farmers are provided with commodities, adding that N15,000 and N20,000 will be the subsidized prices for NPK and Urea respectively.
He directed the Bauchi State Agricultural Supply Company (BASAC) to procure the sale of the inputs at the approved prices adding that the agricultural sector has been upgraded under his watch.
Governor added that his administration has spent over Seventy-Five Million Naira to the State branch of the Agricultural and Rural Management Training Institute (ARMTI) in addition to ensuring the engagement of services of Techgen Agro Consultants Limited for the development of 200,000 hecters land for mechanized farming across the State which is a N50 Billion Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) loan for Accelerated Agricultural Development Scheme
(AADS).
The programme has according to Mohammed, specifically targeted hundreds of thousand beneficiaries in the State as the beneficiaries who had been trained in crop
production, livestock, fisheries and poultry among others.
Governor Bala while assuring his administration’s commitment to the developmnt of the livestock sub-sector, said appropriate measures will be taken to ensure the breeding of healthy livestock through the approval for the release of N44 Million for the annual livestock vaccination for the year 2022.
