Enugu state Governor, Peter Mbah has flagged off the distribution of organic and non organic fertilizers to 12,000 small-holder farmers, with 51 power tillers worth N2 million to each farmer across farming cluster
The Governor also distributed farm yields and cash some to small and Medium Enterprises worth over 5 billion Naira.
Hundreds of farmers drawn from the 21 local council area of the state converged on Michael Okpara Square.
Enugu state is an agrarian state with vast arable land having greater number of the farmers who are into subsistence and commercial farming.
Basic factors affecting enhanced food production include poor land tenure, low level of irrigation farming, climate change and land degradation.
Others are low technology, high production cost and poor distribution of inputs, limited financing, high post-harvest losses and poor access to markets.
An intervention Enugu state government plans mitigate, to scale up farm production and providing farmers with seedlings, power tiller and incentives to rural and commercial farmers.
The state Commissioner and Special adviser on Agric highlighted the importance of the programme to rural farmers
The beneficiaries underscored how this government intervention will transform their agriculture production capacity.
1,251 beneficiaries across 17 local council areas were provided with inputs that includes rice, bean seedlings, cassava stems, herbicides and distribution of farm Inputs worth over 5 billion Naira to scale up Agric production in the state
The state government also disbursed cash N400,000 to 187 beneficiaries, N7.5 million each to tech startups, operational grants to 256 beneficiaries and announced September 2024′ as deadline for Open defecation in Enugu state.
