*Kwara Fadama NG-CARES Project Coordinator says Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara State has taken the decision to create more opportunities for poor and vulnerable farmers towards enhancing food security

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In supporting Nigeria鈥檚 drive to enhance security in the agricultural sector of the economy, the Kwara State Government has augmented the number of farmers that will benefit in the first disbursement of the Kwara Fadama NG-CARES project.

It was gathered Busari Toyin Isiaka, State Project Coordinator, while announcing the approval of 3,000 additional beneficiaries before the Community Facilitators at the Kwara Fadama Office, in Ilorin, the Krawa State capital, said that the addition would include crop farmers.

Farmers in farmland

Busari noted that the beneficiaries would complement the 3,000 livestocks farmers earlier proposed to be captured in the first disbursement planned for the first six months of the project implementation in the state.

The Kwara State Fadama Coordinator further revealed that the development would enhance the platform to come up with 6,000 beneficiaries.

Busari, who declared that Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara State took the decision to create more opportunities for poor and vulnerable farmers towards enhancing food security.

鈥淲ith this new development, the platform has been strengthened to be able to reach out to 6,000 beneficiaries instead of 3,000 in the first six months of implementation. Remember that this project will last for two years, meaning that there will be four events of disbursement within the period of two years, this will make the aggregate of beneficiaries 19,695.

鈥淔adama NG-CARES Project is, to an extent, an ameliorating mechanism to hunger and poverty.

鈥淎s a delivery platform, we assure that we will not let the governor down. The Fadama NG-CARES Project will translate into a remarkable lifeline for the beneficiaries and an epochal achievement for the state.鈥�

He also stated that the Fadama NG-CARES Project, which is an agricultural intervention programme, was initiated to cushion the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.

According to him, while the livestock disbursement will cover only eight LGAs (Ilorin West, Ilorin South, Ilorin East, Asa, Oyun, Offa, Moro and Edu), the crop disbursement (involving rice, maize and soya beans) will be spread across all the 16 LGAs in the state.

Busari, therefore, urged all the Community Facilitators to handle the exercise with commitment and ensure that duplication of beneficiaries was avoided.

Other members of the Project Implementation Unit that made presentations to update the facilitators at the event included the Community Development and Gender Officer Adebukola Adeyemi, Technical Officer (Inputs) Abdulmalik Zubair, Technical Officer (Assets) Ramat Abdulmalik and others, report said.

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