The Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, has flagged off the rehabilitation of 8,000 hectares and conversion/expansion of 5,560 hectares works of Bakolori irrigation scheme under the World Bank assisted Transforming Irrigation Management in Nigeria (TRIMING) project of the Federal Ministry of Water Resources.
Flagging off the project in Talata Mafara, Zamfara State, the Ag. President represented by the Minister of Water Resources, Engr. Suleiman H. Adamu, said that the World Bank was investing a total sum of about $495 million through the TRIMING project to improve irrigation potential of the country.
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