Nigeria’s Kebbi State has surpassed the one million tonnes of rice target for harvest this year by over eight hundred and fifty tonnes.
This feat was disclosed by the Chairman, Rice Farmers Association, Alhaji Sahabi Augie when the Kebbi State Governor and Chairman National Task Force on Rice and wheat, Atiku Bagudu and his Deputy Samaila Yombe conveyed journalists to rice growing communities in Augie, Kalgo, Dandi, Bunza , Suru , and Birnin kebbi Local Government Areas.
This came a year after the CBN Anchor Rice Borrowers Programme in kebbi State was launched to boost rice and wheat production in Nigeria by providing loans to farmers.
Augie said the yield increase was due to improved seedlings and the assistance rendered to farmers through the Anchor Borrowers Programme of the CBN with over 500,000 hectares of cultivated land across ten local government areas of the state.
He explained that, the variety of rice cultivated in kebbi include Nerica7 and 84 as well as faro 44,52, and 61 with farming occurring thrice through the dry, wet, dry season within a year with Rima and Sokoto River serving the dry season irrigation farming.
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