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Ekiti farmers get FG’s inputs

By Victor Akinkuolie, Ado-Ekiti

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No fewer than three thousand nine hundred farmers have benefited from the Federal Government agricultural inputs distribution to the farmers.
Items distributed to the beneficiaries include herbicides, pesticides, Knapsack sprayers, seedlings of rice, maize and yam, water pumps and other farm inputs.
Addressing the beneficiaries during the ceremony held at the SEMA head office in Ado Ekiti, the Deputy Governor of the State, Otunba Bisi Egbeyemi, appreciated the Federal Government for the gesture but also seek for Ekiti farmers needed more succour owing to the magnitude of losses they suffered from natural disasters.
He said: “We thank the Federal Government for these but I want to say that our people need more than these. We are also expecting more financial and material support for our farmers and other people who lost fortunes to disasters.
He mentioned the hardworking farmers who lost their farmlands, crops and animals worth several millions of Naira.
Speaking earlier, the SEMA boss, Capt. Adebomi, said the gesture resulted from the collaboration of Dr. Kayode Fayemi’s Administration with the Federal Government in bringing hope to the of victims affected by natural disasters.”
Adetomi said the verification and enumeration exercise was jointly conducted by SEMA, NEMA and Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to ascertain verified farmers who were given slips for collection of the inputs as he urged the beneficiaries to judiciously use the farming inputs for their economic well-being and improvement.
Some of the beneficiaries, Mr. Tunde Ogunsakin and Mr. Ilesanmi Falana, lauded both the Federal Government and the Ekiti State Government for empowerment promising to make judicious use of the inputs.
Another beneficiary, Mrs. Ronke Olagbemi described the inputs as long overdue said getting them was a dream come true because their hopes had been raised during the verification and enumeration exercise. The SEMA General Manager, Mr. Jide Borode, said the distribution exercise will be daily conducted until all the 3,900 beneficiaries across the state are covered.

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