The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has approved the procurement of fertilizers and sprayers for dry-season farming
The Administration’s Mandate Secretary for Agriculture and Rural Development, Lawan Geidam, who made this known at the end of the Executive Committee Meeting yesterday, November 25, chaired by the Minister, Nyesom Wike said that the approved fertilizers are 300 metric tons of NPK, 300 metric tons of Urea, 310 NAFSAT sprayers, and 3500 liters of liquid fertilizer that will be used for irrigation.
The Mandate Secretary said that the move is aimed at encouraging all-year farming and improving food security in the nation’s capital.
“As you know, the rainy season has ended. We are going into dry season farming, that is, irrigation farming. This is the first time such approval was made in the FCT to encourage, instead of annual farming or rainy season farming, let’s go into irrigation and see that we can do farming all year round.”
