The Kaduna State government has distributed agricultural tools and seedlings to 85 women groups and cooperatives to support them in the 2022 farming season.

The items distributed include improved seeds of rice, maize, cowpea, and groundnut as well as fertilizer, herbicides, wheel borrows and basic hand tools that will boost farming and increase yield.

Deputy Governor of the state, Dr. Hadiza Balarabe, on Tuesday handed over the items to the women groups and cooperatives.

She was assisted by the Commissioner for Human Services and Social Development, Hajiya Hafsat Mohammed Baba.

Governor Nasir El Rufai recently appealed to the people of Kaduna State to farm massively wherever they can because that is the concrete way to reduce hunger and prices of food stuff.

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The governor said that his administration is aware that in some places, farmers have been attacked, abducted, or even killed while working on their fields but assured that the activities of bandits are being tackled.

El Rufai gave this assurance when His Highness, the Emir of Zazzau, Malam Ahmad Nuhu Bamalli, paid him the traditional Hawan Bariki courtesy visit in Zaria on Tuesday.

El Rufai thanked God for witnessing the Eid-El-Fitr celebration, but noted that “citizens in some of our communities fasted and worshiped amidst lingering fears and anxiety about their security.”

“The Kaduna State Government continues to do everything it can to mobilise and support the federal security agencies to defeat the terrorists and criminals that menace our people,” he added.

The Star