By David Okpashi
Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State, Tuesday, crashed down the cost price of fertilizer from N21,000 to N12,000 a bag for all farmers to enhance food production in in the state.
Sule, while speaking at the flag off of this year’s dry season farming said the reduction in the price of the fertilizer product is to encourage more food production among the farmer and increase food security in the state
The governor warned those handling the sales of over 13,000 bags of fertilizer earmarked for this year’s dry-season farming across the state to be responsible as they will be held accountable for any shot practices in the exercise.
The governor urged the people of the state to take advantage of President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agricultural Funds.
On his part, the chairman, Nasarawa State House of Assembly Committee on Agriculture, Dr. Peter Ibrahim Akwe, who said that the distribution of the fertilizers would lead to bumper harvest in the state in 2024 and beyond.
Earlier, the Commissioner for Agriculture, Alhaji Umar Dan’Akano said that the flagging off of the dry-season fertilizer was to boost food production in the state.
