Rivers State Government dolls out cheques to farmers

The Rivers State Government says it has recorded huge success in meeting the needs of farmers in the state.
The Commissioner for Agriculture in the State, Emma Chinda, stated this at a Programme in Port Harcourt.
Chinda also said Rivers State had recorded an increase in food production since Governor Amaechi assumed office.
He said the Government had spent over N180m in developing agriculture in the last four years.
This figure was given at the flag off of the FADAMA project and the disbursement of cheques to benefiting cooperative farmers in Rivers State.
Chinda also said more than a thousand FADAMA Cooperative groups and more than 20 FADAMA associations had benefited from the funding since inception in 2009.
According to him, “The breakdown of this disbursement shows that more than N178m went into crops, more than N133m went to livestock farming, more than N139m went to fish farming, N127 million went to agro forest, N180 million went to crop growth sectors, that is cassava, oil palm and beans while more than N161 million went to our rural areas, most especially trying to reconstruct our roads and put them in other”.
On his part, the Rivers State Coordinator of FADAMA, Kingsley Amadi said rural farmers, youths and widows in the state had been empowered in five areas of agricultural production, including crop production, fishery, livestock, storage and marketing.
DailyPost reports that the state Commissioner for Agriculture, Emma Chinda, presented cheques to 33 cooperative groups.

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