Fadama 111 Disburses N313m To Associations

The Bauchi State Fadama III project has disbursed more than N313 million to 97 Fadama Community Associations in four years, an official said.

The state’s Coordinator of the project, Dr Ali Garba, who disclosed this in an interview with The Tide recently in Bauchi, said that the amount would multiply projects currently ongoing within the benefiting communities.

“We have disbursed N313, 023, 314. 78 to 97 Fadama Associations in the state in various categories; for example Pilot Asset; example of pilot assets, grinding machines to a group, we have disbursed N159, 118, 749.59.

“Now under infrastructure provision, where we built culverts, rehabilitated roads, built market stores for communities and things like that, we have disbursed N89, 796, 475.89.

“We have another project under the Famada project we call SLM (sustainable Land management), it is aimed at safeguarding the environment in our country; for that one, we have disbursed N10, 295, 018.”

Garba said that the SLM programme was concentrated in most part of the Northern parts of the state with a history of devastation by natural disasters such as desert encroachment and erosion.

“Mostly you see the excellence of SLM in the Northern Zone of the state where you don’t see trees at all, then you now see hectares of land severally with their small, small shrubs, orchards as seedlings coming up.

“And in the next two or three years you will start harvesting and start benefitting from such; at the same times these orchards are servicing the communities as wind breaks.

“The erosion that bedevilled our northern zone with these orchards thing, you will see that that area is green.

“Now we have input support scheme, we have disbursed fertiliser, seeds, and chemicals to our farmers depending on what they ask for N8, 112,701.

“We have advisory service and capacity building, and now for advisory service, we have expended for the communities N18, 406, 866. 62; for capacity building N27, 293, 503.72.’’