By Awwal Umar Kontagora The agro-climatic resilience in semi-arid landscape (Acresal) project is in an attempt to save twenty th...
By Awwal Umar Kontagora
The agro-climatic resilience in semi-arid landscape (Acresal) project is in an attempt to save twenty thousand hectares to boost the agricultural sector and food security where it's expected to spend three hundred and fifty million dollars in nineteen states including Abuja.
The coordinator of the Niger State Acresal program, Malam Raji Shehu Adam, stated this in a one-day meeting with stakeholders and experts where twenty thousand hectares are being saved.
The program is owned by the Niger State government in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, the Ministry of Agriculture, and the Ministry of Water and the Development of Major Water Canals, which is a program of the United Nations and FAO.
While Explaining, the Project Coordinator, Malam Raji Shehu Adam said the mission of the agency is to create a good agricultural environment to save lives, which is related to the fight against soil erosion, and the improvement of the forests in taking advantage of them to provide food and generate income for the community.
Raji said that as a result of landslides in the Hausawa area, the agency expects to save eight hectares, which in this area only is expected to save sixteen hectares for the development of agriculture and food production.
AcReSal stated that this year it will focus on these two important projects to ensure that the state continues to hold its title in becoming the front liner, which we believe will complete the project to save the country from the threat of erosion, which is a joint project between us FAO which will saved more than one hundred thousand hectares. three in nineteen states including Abuja.
The agency needs to support 3.4 million people, most of whom are expected to be women of the three hundred and fifty million dollars allocated as loans to the affected people, in nineteen states including Abuja.
Hajiya Rabi Mamman Lafiya, a Natural Resource person, and one of the leaders of the program that works with the ACRESA, has added more on the steps to be followed in taking advantage of this program. The step-down training for state staving and Technical committee/stakeholders engagement as restoration of 20,000 hectares of degraded land under the Technical Assitance of the Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations (FAO).
She stated that one of the resolutions of our agency is to save the country from the threat of erosion so that the government will succeed in achieving its goal of encouraging farmers and providing jobs for the people.
It is said that we choose less than fifty to a hundred hectares in every countryside, especially when we get a report, we make bottles, provide agricultural land and breeding.
The agency on supporting the people of the area and supporting the program that is expected to start in April 2024 will start from May to July which includes Suleja, Tafa and Gurara, Paikoro, and Bosso local governments, which has been removed from Shiroro local governments. Munya and Rafi as a result of the insecurity.
In his statement, the Commissioner of Agriculture, Hon. Musa Bawa Bosso, said that the state government has produced more than one thousand agricultural tractors which has now started to train workers and control the tractors because the person who is determined can explain to the ministry to give him the opportunity to work with agricultural equipment provided by the government.
Hon. Yakubu Mohammed Kolo, the Commissioner for Environment and Climate Change, said the decision of the agency in Niger State is commendable because the government is committed to restoring the reputation of agriculture and self-reliance and food which the federal government has praised the farmer, Governor Umar Mohammed Bago, who is sure of all the support of the agency.
The Niger government needs to give it to her. Among the commissioners who attended the meeting were the Commissioner for Environment and Climate Change, the Commissioner of the Ministry of Agriculture, Hon. Musa Bawa Bosso, then the Commissioner of Water and High Lakes, Hon. Yahaya Alhassan Gwagwa, and the Commissioner of Finance, Hon. Lawal Maikano.
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