Nigeria: Niger State to Procure 5,000 Tonnes of Fertilizer for Distribution

Minna — Niger State Commissioner for Agriculture, Mohammed Kwatu has said that the state government has concluded arrangements to procure 5000 metric tonnes of fertilizer to cover the over one million farmers that were not captured in the newly introduced growth enhancement scheme of fertilizer distribution.

The commissioner, who disclosed this at the weekend in Minna, said the state government is purchasing the commodity because the new fertilizer distribution scheme would only cater for a small number of farmers.

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