Katsina Government claims spends N7billion on agriculture in 3 years
The Katsina State Government has spent more than seven billion naira on agricultural development between 2007 and the present.
The state
commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Sani Fago, stated
this on Wednesday in Katsina at an interactive session with the Peer
Review team of the Nigeria Governors` Forum (NGF) Secretariat.
Mr. Fago said that
the money was spent on the procurement and distribution of fertiliser,
irrigation activities, livestock services, counterpart funding for
Fadama projects, seed production and the resuscitation of extension
service centres.
He said that it was
also used for forestry activities, the purchase of grains for buffer
stock, Agricultural Service Guarantee Scheme and the vaccination of
livestock.
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