Over fifteen thousand metric tones of fertilizer have been distributed free to over one hundred and twenty small holder farmers in Kaduna State.
The Kaduna State governor, Senator Uba Sani, who flagged of the distribution exercise at Murtala Mohammed Square, said the initiative aims to improve the living condition of the people through food security and provision of employment opportunities to the teeming youths.
Earlier in a welcome address, the Kaduna State Commissioner of Agriculture, Alhaji Murtala Dabo, said the distribution of the free fertilizer is a proof of the administration's commitment to ensuring that every farmer has the resources needed to succeed.
Also speaking, the Secretary to the Kaduna State Government, who is also the Chairman, Fertilizer Distribution Committee, Dr. Abdulkadir Mu'azu Mayere, urged the benefitting farmers to make judicious use of the gesture, warning that government will not tolerate diversion of the commodity.
In their various Goodwill messages, the Co-Chairman, Kaduna State Elders Forum, Retired General Zamani Lekwot and the renown Islamic Scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Fumi urged the state government to extend the gesture by establishing a marketing board that will work out on minimum prices of farm produce for maximum benefits.
Some of the farmers' representatives described the gesture as first of it's kind in the history of the state.