Abia moves to increase rice production, says fake farmers won’t benefit from support

Abia State authorities has said that it would adjacent week emblem disconnected bedewed play atom cultivation programme connected a people 8,500 hectares of onshore astatine antithetic parts of Abia North successful an effort to boost nutrient production.

This is arsenic the State says that lone genuine farmers who person been verified to really ain atom farms would payment from authorities supports, not impostors.

Addressing journalists connected Monday astatine the Government House, Umuahia, aft this week’s enforcement assembly gathering presided implicit by Governor Alex Otti, Commissioner for Information, Okey Kanu said that 400 genuine farmers astatine Ndiokereke Abam who are farming connected 500 hectares of lands person been verified.

He noted that determination is cultivation of atom connected further 150 hectares of lands astatine Owerrinta, pointing retired that the cultivation would beryllium replicated successful Bende, Mkpa, Ofeme,Ozuitem, Ndiokereke and Ndioji Abam communities.

Addressing the interest that the authorities agric supports whitethorn beryllium diverted to non farmers, the Commissioner for agriculture, Cliff Agbaeze said that that determination is simply a statewide enumeration to cod the information of existent farmers.

He explained that for a farmers to suffice for authorities supports, specified farmers indispensable person their existent farms identified and geo- maped with precise coordinates.

Meanwhile, immoderate authorities workplace plantations which were recovered Abia from their investors person been offered to caller and credible investors with May 15 being the deadline.