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Stakeholder Raises Alarm Over Poor Harvest
A stakeholder has raised alarm over possible poor harvest in Rivers State during next year’s agricultural harvest should the Federal Ministry of Agriculture delay the distribution of fertilizers to farmers that would enable them begin planting.
The Chairman, Farmers Co-operatives Assocation, Mr. Godwin Akandu, who stated this in an interview yesterday with The Tide, said that dry season fertilizer distribution to farmers in the state ought to have started before now, but that due to some complications, the scheme was yet to take off.
He disclosed that because the scheme had not kicked off because fertilizer dealers who supplied the product during last year’s scheme were yet to be paid.
According to Akandu, “while the Federal ministry of Agriculture was urging the dealers to source funds to supply to farmers this year, dealers had insisted that they be paid as they have no fund to embark on distribution of fertilizer this year.
“It will affect production, lead to farmine as fertilizer naturally encourages humper harvest but early distribution to farmers has been frustrated”, he stated.
He said, the case of farming in Rivers State needed early farming for those living in the swamp area, noting that for those even in the upland, there was need to start dry season farming now in view of expected early rains.
He appealed to the Federal Ministry of Agriculture to do the needful by clearing the debt owed past distributors of fertilizers in the state to enable them begin distribution for this year’s scheme.
Akandu stressed that this step has became imperative in view of the diversification mantra of the present administration and emphasis on the agricultural sector.
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