In an effort to ensure the successful commencement of dry season farming, the National Agricultural Land Development Authority, (NALDA) has reactivated its 800 hectares of abandoned farm estate in Bauchi state.
The Executive Secretary of the agency, Mr. Paul Ikonne stated this when he led some officials of the Agency on an advocacy visit to Governor Bala Mohammed at the Council Chamber, Government House.
Ikonne said the agency would use the 800 hectares of the reactivated abandoned farm estate to engage communities of the state in farming activities for them to become self-reliant.
Apart from reactivation of the 800 hectares of land, Ikonne said the state would benefit from a fish village project of the agency in which not less than two hundred farmers would be trained on fish processing.
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“Your Excellency, I urge you to partner with NALDA in making sure that we drive your state forward and to continue with the developments projects going on currently. Bauchi state is one of the pilot states of NALDA project”, he said.
According to him, the agency was ready to collaborate and collaborate with the Bauchi state government in order to achieve the desire of President Muhammadu Buhari for developing agriculture to reduce unemployment, poverty and ensure food security.
He said arrangements have reached an advance stage for the training of 30,000 youths on soil testing and Agric extension in line with the directives of President Mohammadu Buhari.
Responding, Mohammed expressed the readiness of his administration to work with the agency by keying into its projects towards agricultural development and for initiating programme on Women in agriculture.
The governor announced plans by the state government to resuscitate the fish village inherited by his administration and appealed to the Agency to partner with Bauchi State Environmental Protection Agency (BASEPA) especially on soil testing.
