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Inputs
By Aminu Ahmed Garko
Paikoro (Minna), Nov. 3, 2016 (NAN) Alhaji Jamilu Musa, a commercial farmer in Niger, has advised the Federal and state governments to provide farming equipment at affordable rates for farmers to encourage all-year farming.
Musa told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Paikoro Local Government, Niger, that providing basic farming implements in the rural areas would pave way for massive food productions of various crops.
He said that availability of farm inputs would encourage youths to embrace farming thereby creating job opportunities.
He explained that the present insecurity challenges and youth restiveness facing the country could be tackled if youths were engaged in farming.
He explained that in the past farmers do have access to farm inputs at the local government headquarters and district offices at subsidies and affordable rates.
“We could still go back and reintroduce agricultural stores where farmers can procure such farming inputs at government controlled prices.
“We need concrete policies that will create avenue for job creation and poverty eradication through the provision of affordable farming inputs at the grassroots level,” he said. (NAN)
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Edited by Felix Ajide
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