Fadama III Beneficiaries Lose N35m To Flood

The Fadama III Office in Adamawa has confirmed that beneficiaries of the programme lost N35 million to the 2012 flood disaster.

The state coordinator of the programme, Mr Mohammed Bello, disclosed this to newsmen in Yola recently.

Bello said that the flood damaged a total of 150 hectares of farmland, while about 76 hectares were washed away completely.

According to him, 1,053 Fadama user groups were affected.

“Our Fadama users are also among those who suffered most as a result of the flood disaster which affected farm produce worth over N35 million”.

He said that the flood devastated maize and rice farmland, fish ponds, hand dug wells for livestock, canoes, rice processing machines, nets, hooks, four culverts and pig pens, among others.

He commended the Federal Government for its intervention, saying that about 760 Fadama user groups in the state had benefitted from the gesture.

“Our farmers called us through phones and confirmed to us that they had received the Federal Government flood relief assistance”, he said.

The coordinator, however, said that arrangement had been concluded for the second phase of the assistance to the affected farmers.