Kaduna state wheat farmers praise FG’s 50% subsidy on raw materials
The Nigeria Wheat Farmers Association, Kaduna State Chapter, on Sunday counseled the Federal Government for subsidizing inputs for dry season wheat cultivation in Zaria, Kaduna State.
The federal authorities is giving 50 per cent subsidy on wheat agricultural inputs throughout the dry season below the National Agriculture Growth Plan and Agriculture Pocket (NAGS –AP) initiative.
For dry season wheat cultivation, beneficiaries are required to deposit N180,500 equal to 50% of the overall value of inputs to qualify for the subsidy.
Chairman of the Farmers Association, Alhaji Bashir Tanko, advised the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that many beneficiaries had acquired alerts relating to the redemption of inputs in designated areas in Kaduna State.
However, he identified that extra wheat farmers can not afford to pay the obligatory N180,500 (50%) deposit to obtain the subsidy.
“Most union members have already planted wheat in anticipation of presidency intervention to strengthen human sources efforts. Most of them had exhausted a big quantity of their sources.
“They couldn’t benefit from subsidies, so they will continue to use their personal resources,” Tanko stated.
He dismissed considerations that inputs would find yourself within the palms of non-wheat farmers as a result of NAGS-AP demoted the affiliation.
“We surmise that the demotion of the association is based on insufficient recovery of funds previously given to wheat farmers through the association under the Anchor Borrower Programme,” Tanko stated.
He assured the federal government that the affiliation wouldn’t relent in its efforts to recuperate the complete quantity awarded to wheat farmers and urged different stakeholders to not view the affiliation as a nasty debtor.
He additionally referred to as on the federal authorities to present the affiliation a second probability and the advantage of the doubt, stressing that the affiliation won’t disappoint its patrons.
Source: guardian.ng