FG is committed to ensuring food security— Ministry
The federal government, has reiterated its's commitment to boost agricultural production, to ensure food security .
The minister of water resources, Engineer Sulaiman Hussaini Adamu, made the indication during the launching of the N14 billion Gari irrigation project.
According to him, the dam situated between Kano and Jigawa states, would assist irrigation farmers in Dambatta, Makoda, Gari, Kazaure and Roni local government areas.
Engineer Hussaini Adamu said, the Dam, would serve over two thousand hecters of irrigation land, 44kg bug canals, 6 tanks and feeder roads.
Also speaking, the managing director Hadejia/Jama'are river basin authority, Alhaji Mahmud Da'u Aliyu, described the irrigation site as a catalyst to creating jobs, and boosting agricultural production.
He charged farmers to make judicous use of the facilities.
The team also visited Kadawa in Garun/malam local government area kano, to flag off a hybrid seeds center, where farmers in Kano and other neighbouring states, would benefit from maize, rice, sesame seeds among others.
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