The federal government yesterday disbursed over N100 million
to 600 members of the United Farmers’ Association Kadarko (UFAK) in Nasarawa
State under its anchor borrowers Programme of the Central Bank of Nigeria
(CBN).
Similarly, the government also disbursed to the Kadarko
farmers farm inputs made up of 1,800 bags of assorted fertilizers, 600bags of
50kgs of rice seedlings and cartons of herbicides for cultivation on a 100
hectares of farm land acquired by the farmers for rice cultivation this year’s
cropping season.
Disbursing the incentives to the farmers at Kadarko town in
Keana Local Government Area of the state, the North Central zonal manager of
Bank of Agriculture (BOA), Ibrahim Alamba, said each of the 600 beneficiaries
of the Kadarko farmers association would receive the sum of N179,000.
The BOA North Central zonal manager continued that each of
the beneficiaries is to also receive two bags of NPK and one bag of urea
assorted fertilizers as well as one bag of 50kgs rice seedlings.
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