Sokoto to buy water pumps for farmers

Sokoto State Government is to purchase 3,000 water pumps for sale to dry season farmers across the state.
Chuso Abdullahi, chairman, Technical Committee on the Revitalisation of Agriculture, said in Sokoto on Tuesday that the water pumps would be sold to the farmers at subsidised price of N 10,000 per piece. He said plans are also ongoing to buy 300 metric tonnes of fertiliser for sale to the dry season farmers.
“The commodity would be sold to the beneficiaries at only N 3,000 per bag. The state government also recently donated 5,000 bags of wheat seeds to the farmers. All these are geared towards facilitating the production of more food to keep poverty and hunger at bay,” Abdullahi said.