We’ll Subsidizes Price of Fertilizer To Sokoto Farmers – Tambuwal

….To Sell At N13,000 To Farmers

Gbolahan Salman Sokoto

As part of efforts to ensure food security and encourage farmers in the state, Sokoto State Government has announced that a bag of fertilizer will be made available to farmers in the state at a subsidized rate of N13,000 naira only.

The Governor of the state, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, disclosed this on Monday while fagging bbbboff the sales and distribution of 100metric tonnes of Fertilizer for 2022 farming season acros the state.

The Governor while speaking while unveiling the fertilizer pegged NPK product at Thirteen thousand naira (N13000 ) against Twenty – Nine thousand naira (N29000) market price.

The Governor while giving out strong warning against selling of the products to marketers, further explained that eighty percent of Sokoto resident are farmers stressing that Sokoto has comparative advantage of producing some crops because of its weather.

He maintained that his administration has secured N4billion central bank intervention funds for 16000 rice and tomatoe farmers in the state .

Tambuwal noted that his Agricultural policy is yielding positive results hence the establishment of Dangote Rice Mill and Morocco Fertilizer blending plant at Kware and Kalambaina respectively.

He encouraged civil servants and other categories of workers in the state to diversify their income by venture into farming, while promising to assist any body who venture into farming with subsidize inputs.

He also disclosed that he is working assiduously with the security agencies in the state to stem the tide of insecurity in the rural areas especially in the Eastern senatorial district to enable them to go back to their farms.

Earlier the commissioner of Agriculture in the state Prof Aminu Abubakar Illela thanked the Governor for providing support to farmers in the area of Fertilizer and other agricultural inputs.

He stated that measure were put in place to prevent the diversion of the product promising that the product will go to the real farmers.