Sokoto government says its agricultural integrated plan entails all agricultural activities, ranging from the rearing of animals and poultry to the construction of rice mills
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He said the programme would involve cultivating hundreds of hectares of land, noting that the state would leverage its comparative advantage of having rivers and dams for the farmlands. “Because each day, about 50 to 100 trucks of onion and garlic are transported to countries like Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire and other African countries,” he told NAN.Mr Achida said that, given the state’s agrarian nature, the government has been supporting the sector since it came on board.
“The government is encouraging the planting of economic trees and working with the Federal Ministry of Environment to get the trees to plant for economic prosperity. “We have this National Agriculture Insurance Cooperation; we are engaging with them to come in, even though we cannot stop natural disasters.“The government is also providing mitigation measures for flood and natural disasters, like buffer dams, and palliatives to the people in the Internally Displaced Persons camps.
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