Farmers Get FADAMA Grants In Edo

Farmers in Iguomokhua village in Orhionmwon local government area of Edo on Monday expressed gratitude to the Edo Fadama Office for providing them with grants and farm implements.

Chairman of Imade Farm, a Fadama User Group, Mr. Osas Benson said in Benin that the group was into yam production.

He said the Fadama intervention fund had helped members of the group to increase the number of hectares being cultivated.

‘’Before we got to know about Fadama in this village, we were cultivating small acres of land that we could prepare on our own. I was cultivating between one and two acres but now I can boast of five hectares of yam farm. I have even bought a bus from last year’s proceeds,’’ he said.

According to him, there are 16 farmers in his group, 10 women and six men in other groups, adding that they normally contribute small amount of money on each meeting day to help themselves.

Others members of the group, Mr Andrew Omozuwa, Mrs Felicia Ighuola and Mrs Grace Osawaro,  said that Fadama had made farming easier.

Omozuwa said that members now employed the services of labourers during land preparation.

The three farmers, however, appealed for more fund to expand their farms and to also sustain the level of yam production in the village.