Boosting Agriculture: Organisation Tasks FG On Gender Friendly Farm Implements - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 6, 2019
The Small-scale Women Farmers Organisation in Nigeria,SWOFON has called on the Federal Government to provide its members with genderfriendly agricultural equipment towards boosting their performances.
The Niger state Coordinator of SWOFON, Grace Disa madethe call when she visited the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture andRural Development, Ibrahim Garba after a road walk in Minna. She alsoasked governments at all levels to provide 1, 480 power tillers and same numberof hand planters to the women farmers for each cooperative society.
Disa called on government to provide improved seeds tothe women farmers, saying that members of the group require nothing less than102, 661 bags of assorted fertilisers and 25 kg of assorted farm inputs everyfarming season.
Also, the National Coordinator SWOFON, OmoboyowaRoberts appealed to the three tier of government to emphasis on agriculture asit is the only genuine way to accelerate the economic growth of the country.
Responding, the Permanent Secretary of the stateMinistry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Ibrahim Garba assured the groupthat their demands would be forwarded to the Commissioner Haliru Jikantoro.