• About
  • Advertise
  • Contact
Thursday, October 23, 2025
  • Login
Vital News
  • Frontpage
  • Business
  • Economy
  • Politics
  • National
  • Opinion
  • Sports
  • More
    • Crime
    • Judiciary
    • Security
No Result
View All Result
  • Frontpage
  • Business
  • Economy
  • Politics
  • National
  • Opinion
  • Sports
  • More
    • Crime
    • Judiciary
    • Security
No Result
View All Result
Vital News
No Result
View All Result
Home Agriculture/ Water/ Mineral

FGN, IFAD Distribute N25 mln Agric Tools To Farmers In Enugu

Vital News by Vital News
November 6, 2022
in Agriculture/ Water/ Mineral
0
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

By Nicholas Obisike

Enugu – The Federal Government in collaboration with the International Fund for Agricultural Development-Value Chain Development Programme, has distributed rice farm inputs worth more than N25m to farmers in Enugu.

The inputs were distributed on Saturday during the beginning of the Agency’s 2022/2023 dry season Agro-input distribution at the IFAD/VCDP office in Enugu.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports the items to include bags of rice seeds, bags of NPK fertilisers, bags of Indorama Urea fertilisers, herbicides of selective and non selective.

Others are, rice planters and harvesters, de-stoning machines, water pumps, rice milling machines, cassava processing machines

RelatedStories

NCDC Chairman Urges More Support For FG, Pledges Intervention In Key Sectors To Ease Hardship

Kogi Deepens Ties With Agencies, Investors To Boost Food Security, Agro Export

House Of Reps. Member, Hon. James Faleke Donates Agric. Inputs Worth N150mln To Kogi Farmers

Kogi, Hunan Partnership Agreement Implementation Commences With Agric Exchange Programme

Addressing the famers, the National Programme Coordinator, Dr. Fatima Aliyu, said the programme focused on the rural poor farmers.

Aliyu, who was represented by the Value Chain Development Programme Agricultural Production Adviser, Dr Chyka Unamma, appreciated the farmers for their enthusiasm in the programme.

“We support farmers in groups and not individual and from our research, rice does well in dry season,” he said.

He therefore encouraged Enugu IFAD-VCDP farmers to do more and noted that everything about IFAD-VCDP in Enugu State was prayers answered.

“Whatever concerns rice and cassava is our responsibility and that is why it is called value chain; this is because VCDP supports farmers in production, processing and marketing.

“Out of the nine states VCDP intervenes, Enugu remains one of the best and need to do more to attract more support.”

The State Programme Coordinator IFAD/VCDP, Dr Edward Isiwu, said the state was planning 59 hectares initially to grow rice this dry season.

He said that Enugu received additional 43 hectares from the national, making it 96 hectares for this dry season rice farming.

“Today is one of those days we have been doing this type of things and this is the fourth time we are doing this in two years that we took off the activities of IFAD-VCDP in Enugu.

“The first one was in January 2021 for dry season and we have two seasons; Wet and Dry seasons,” he said.

“We are kicking off the dry season farming and the farmers have prepared their land in readiness for the season.

“We tried this dry season farming last year and there was a bumper harvest, I believe this year will be better.

“The previous distributions yielded good result, so, farmers should go to their collection centres and claim their inputs,” Isiwu advised.

On the same note, Dr. Mathew Idu, the Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, said that “stomach infrastructure ” supersedes other infrastructure.

He thanked the coordinators at all levels for the programme and urged farmers to take advantage of it and get themselves out of poverty.

The Director, Federal Ministry of Agriculture, South East zone, Dr. Benjamin Puja, praised the coordinator for a wonderful scorecard.

He said the Federal Ministry of Agriculture was proud to identify with what FGN/IFAD-VCDP was doing in the state.

“With the support of this project to farmers, especially women who form the largest part of farming population in Nigeria, I’m just proud of you,” he said.

A traditional ruler, Igwe Abel Nwobodo, the grand patron of traditional rulers in the state, prayed for God’s favour upon the State Coordinator and his staff.

One of the beneficiaries, Mr. Lawrence Chijioke, the chairman of Providence Multi-Purpose Co-operative Society, said that IFAD-VCDP had changed their narratives.

Chijioke, whose group benefited from lots of agric equipment, said, VCDP wou not only support you, but will adequately follow up the supports given to you.

Therefore, I am so proud to be among the beneficiaries of the programme and urged the donor agency, IFAD extend their interventions to other LGAs in the State.(NAN/vitalnewsngr.com)

Tags: farmersFGIFADTools
Previous Post

Lagos To Start Impounding Unpainted Commercial Vehicles Nov. 7

Next Post

Plateau To Return Missionary Schools To Original Owners

Vital News

Vital News

RelatedStories

NCDC Chairman Urges More Support For FG, Pledges Intervention In Key Sectors To Ease Hardship
Agriculture/ Water/ Mineral

NCDC Chairman Urges More Support For FG, Pledges Intervention In Key Sectors To Ease Hardship

September 29, 2025
Kogi Deepens Ties With Agencies, Investors To Boost Food Security, Agro Export
Agriculture/ Water/ Mineral

Kogi Deepens Ties With Agencies, Investors To Boost Food Security, Agro Export

September 26, 2025
House Of Reps. Member, Hon. James Faleke Donates Agric. Inputs Worth N150mln To Kogi Farmers
Agriculture/ Water/ Mineral

House Of Reps. Member, Hon. James Faleke Donates Agric. Inputs Worth N150mln To Kogi Farmers

September 20, 2025
Kogi, Hunan Partnership Agreement Implementation Commences With Agric Exchange Programme
Agriculture/ Water/ Mineral

Kogi, Hunan Partnership Agreement Implementation Commences With Agric Exchange Programme

September 15, 2025
Over 15,000 Herders Flee Nigeria As Insecurity Threatens Livelihoods – Miyetti Allah
Agriculture/ Water/ Mineral

Over 15,000 Herders Flee Nigeria As Insecurity Threatens Livelihoods – Miyetti Allah

August 14, 2025
Next Post

Plateau To Return Missionary Schools To Original Owners

Cleric Urges Nigerians To Embrace Peace

Atiku Campaign Coordinator In FCT , Zhin, Dies At 54

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Follow Us

Recommended

Kenyan Police Arrest Man For Killing 42 Women

Kenyan Police Arrest Man For Killing 42 Women

1 year ago

Nasarawa Assembly Leadership Crisis Resolved As Balarabe Emerges Speaker

2 years ago

FG, IFAD Train 98,000 Rural Farmers

3 years ago
Good Governance In Rwanda : Lessons For Nigeria.

Good Governance In Rwanda : Lessons For Nigeria.

3 years ago

Instagram

    Please install/update and activate JNews Instagram plugin.

Categories

  • Agriculture/ Water/ Mineral
  • Aviation
  • Business
  • Crime
  • Culture
  • Economy
  • Education
  • Entertainment
  • Environment
  • Football
  • Foreign
  • Gender
  • Health
  • Judiciary
  • Labour
  • Maritime/ Marine Transport
  • National
  • News
  • Oil & Gas
  • Opinion
  • Opinion
  • Politics
  • Power
  • Religion
  • Security
  • Sports
  • Tourism
  • Transport
  • Uncategorized

Topics

Abiodun Abuja APC arrest Atiku Bandits Bello Benue Buhari CBN cement Court Dangote death dies drugs Economy EFCC Election FG gunmen Hajj INEC Kano kidnap Kill Kogi Kwara Lagos NDLEA Niger Nigeria Ododo Ogun Oyo PDP Police Power refinery rescue road Security students Tinubu US
No Result
View All Result

Highlights

Governor Adeleke Appoints Davido Chairman Of Osun State Sports Trust Fund

FG Warns Buyers To Stay Off ARCEDEM, Radio Nigeria Land, Four Other Landed Property In Oyo

‎IMPI Revises Inflation Rate Projection To 14% From 17% For December

National Orthopedic Hospital Jalingo Signs MoU With Police Health Maintenance Limited

Former Kogi Senator In Trouble Over Attempts To Scuttle Appointment Of Amupitan As INEC Chairman, Action Raises Dust Among Kinsmen

Three INEC Officials Going For November 8 Anambra Governorship Election Kidnapped In Kogi

Trending

Dangote Denies Ownership Of Truck Involved In Enugu Accident
News

Dangote Group Denies Ownership Of Truck In Akungba-Akoko Accident

by Vital News
October 23, 2025
0

Dangote Group has refuted reports circulating on social media and in some online platforms linking it to...

Former Minister, Tanimu Turaki, Emerges Northern PDP Consensus Candidate As National Chairman

Former Minister, Tanimu Turaki, Emerges Northern PDP Consensus Candidate As National Chairman

October 23, 2025
Trailer Crushes Female University Lecturer To Death In Lokoja

Trailer Crushes Female University Lecturer To Death In Lokoja

October 23, 2025
Governor Adeleke Appoints Davido Chairman Of Osun State Sports Trust Fund

Governor Adeleke Appoints Davido Chairman Of Osun State Sports Trust Fund

October 22, 2025
FG Cancels Independence Anniversary Parade

FG Warns Buyers To Stay Off ARCEDEM, Radio Nigeria Land, Four Other Landed Property In Oyo

October 22, 2025
ADVERTISEMENT
Vital News

Vital News is an online newspaper with a mission to uphold professional journalism by reporting and publishing only facts and figures-based news reports across Nigeria and beyond.

Recent News

  • Dangote Group Denies Ownership Of Truck In Akungba-Akoko Accident October 23, 2025
  • Former Minister, Tanimu Turaki, Emerges Northern PDP Consensus Candidate As National Chairman October 23, 2025
  • Trailer Crushes Female University Lecturer To Death In Lokoja October 23, 2025

Categories

  • Agriculture/ Water/ Mineral
  • Aviation
  • Business
  • Crime
  • Culture
  • Economy
  • Education
  • Entertainment
  • Environment
  • Football
  • Foreign
  • Gender
  • Health
  • Judiciary
  • Labour
  • Maritime/ Marine Transport
  • National
  • News
  • Oil & Gas
  • Opinion
  • Opinion
  • Politics
  • Power
  • Religion
  • Security
  • Sports
  • Tourism
  • Transport
  • Uncategorized

© 2022 Vital News - . All Rights Reserved.

No Result
View All Result
  • Frontpage
  • Business
  • Economy
  • Politics
  • National
  • Opinion
  • Sports
  • More
    • Crime
    • Judiciary
    • Security

© 2022 Vital News - Vital News by Vital News.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In