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Nigeria: Food Crisis - Kwara to Release 1,222 Metric Tonnes of Grains

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Daily Trust (Abuja)

28 April 2008
Posted to the web 28 April 2008

Mustafa Abubakar
Ilorin

The Kwara State Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources Profesor Mohammed Gana Yisa has disclosed that the state government will release 1,222metric tonnes of grains for sale to Kwarans in its efforts to tackle food crisis affecting the country.

The State Commissioner said this at the floor of the State House of Assembly while briefing the legislators on the measures taken by his ministry to curb the escalating food prices in state.

He said this is in addition to the 13,650 metric tonnes of assorted fertilizer to be sold to farmers at subsidized rates this planting season.

Professor Yisa said that the grains is made up of 600 tonnes of maize, 600 tonnes of guinea corn from federal reserves, 20 tonnes of maize and two tonnes of rice owned by the state government, assuring that it would soon get to the public as soon as modalities are put in place on the distribution.

It could be recalled that the state government put fifty per cent subsidy while local governments also added 20 per cent to bring down the prices of NPK 201010, NPK 151515 and Urea fertilizer to N1, 880.00, N2, 040.00 and N1, 880.00 in the state.

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