By Ismail Muhammad
The National coordinator of the Agro Climatic Resilience in Semi Arid Landscapes [ACRESAL] holds its first Technical support mission in Dutse , the capital of the state from Monday to Friday , APRIL 2024 where participating Seven Northern States attended and successes recorded have assessed .
Speaking to newsmen after the opening programme, the National Coordinator of the programme Alhaji Abdulhamid Umar disclosed that it was the World bank funded programme in collaboration with the Federal government of Nigeria which seven Northern states were participating .
He mentioned that, the World Bank has set aside the whopping sum of 700 Million Us dollars to finance the project while the Federal government has already paid its sovereign funds adding that two years since its inception, the programme gone way in boosting Agriculture and National food security .
He said the participants of the session have visited community and watersheds at Hadejia and Ringim local government areas of Jigawa state where they expressed satisfaction with the progress so far recorded, adding that many farmers along watersheds had complained on lack of insurance to save guard their commodities from losses was their major set back
Alhaji Abdulhamid said the major problem in Jigawa State was annual flooding and assured the farmers whose crops were devastated by the flood that soon when they gone back to Abuja they meet with the Nigerian meteorological Agency [NIMET] which focuses the amount of Rainfall of each state for advice and guidance before they commence disbursing the revolving loan to communities RFL stating that the money is there in stock, pointed out that, they will soon start disbursing them to mitigate the problems of the farmers participating in the project.
The coordinator pointed out that the main aim of the programme was to uplift fro poor farmers from the shackles’ of poverty .
In his welcome address, the Jigawa state programme coordinator Malam Yahaya UIba said that jigawa has large scale arming families who involved in farming Activities and business adding they joined hands together to archive a success.
MalmYahaya Uba disclosed further that since the inception of the programme two years a go in the state they enjoyed the support and assistance from the state governor Malam Umar Namadi and then appreciated the support for its full take up
