Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno has embarked on total irrigation farming in the state, targeting 10,000 irrigation farmers in 2022.
Governor Zulum, who addressed some of the 1,750 farmers who benefited from the 2021 dry season farming inputs yesterday in Shani, Bayo and Hawul Local Government Area of the state, said: “we want to do more than what we are doing now by identifying more potential sites for irrigation.
“We are targeting 10,000 irrigation farmers for next year.”
This was even as the chairman of the Borno Mega Farm Committee, Alhaji Inuwa Kubo, said that beneficiaries for the 2021 farming season were provided fertilizer, water pumps and agro-chemicals, as well as maize and rice seeds.
Kubo said that very soon, the committee would commence registration of wheat farmers for government support.
He advised farmers in the state to exploit the big opportunity provided by irrigation farming.
Source: NAN.
