15,000 farmers benefit from Fadama III project in Kano State
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Fadama
By Abbas Bamalli
Kano, May 22, 2017 (NAN) No fewer than 15,000 farmers have benefited from Fadama III additional Financing (AF) Project’s intervention on agriculture in Kano state in the past two years.
The National Coordinator of the project, Mr Tayo Adewuni, disclosed this on Monday during the mid-term review mission organised for stakeholders in Kano.
According to him, the project has been able to empower the farmers, especially on modern techniques of rice farming, sorghum and tomatoes in the state.
He said the essence of organising the mid-term review mission was to access the level of progress made and address necessary challenges.
The coordinator pointed out that the performance of the project in the state has been very commendable.
He explained that the state was among the leading states that were currently benefitting from the project.
Adewumi commended the efforts of the state government in setting mechanism to ensure regular feedback, which led to the spread of the project to 44 from initial seven local government areas.
In his remarks, the Kano State Commissioner for Agriculture, Dr Nasir Gawuna, applauded the efforts of the Fadama III additional financing project in the state.
The commissioner, represented by the Managing Director, Kano State Agricultural and Rural Development Authority (KNADA), Prof. Mahmud Daneji, said a lot of farmers have benefitted from the project.
Gawuna assured farmers of the state government’s collaboration with the project to boost agriculture in the state.
Earlier, the representative of World Bank in the project, Dr Adetunji Oredipe, said the bank was highly impressed with the performance of the state farmers.
According to him, the target of the project is to empower 30,000 farmers in Kano alone within the four years of the project. (NAN)
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Edited by Julius Enehikhuere/Felix Ajide