Kwara provides 20,000 tons of fertiliser for farmers

The Kwara State House of Assembly has approved Governor Abdul Fatah Ahmed’s request to procure 20,000 metric tonnes of NPK fertiliser worth N2billion for distribution to indigenous farmers operating in the state.

The approval of the governor’s request and announcement by the speaker, Ali Ahmad was sequel to that effect , during the plenary.

However, the procurement of the fertiliser is under the Federal Government intervention programme in all the 36 states of the Federation and Abuja inclusive.

The house members unanimously directed its committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources to ensure the distribution and sales of the commodity after procurement.

This they said was to ascertain that the fertiliser gets to genuine farmers and not political farmers who will re sell the product at exorbitant prices.

The house similarly directed the committee to fully supervise the sales of the fertiliser with the aim of ensuring that a bag is not sold beyond N5, 000 per bag.

Recently, the Federal Government just signed an agreement with Morocco on the supply of fertilisers to boost supply and crash prices.

SIKIRAT SHEHU