“We have lifted more than 700 million people out of poverty in China, and in Nigeria, there are 200 million with 100 million living below the poverty line.”Â
“The Chinese government is handing over this project to support Nigeria to develop a more modernised agricultural sector.”
The donation is intended to help over 300,000 of the most vulnerable people in North-East Nigeria.
The report indicated that violence erupted on November 30 over the alleged encroachment of farmlands and murder of a farmer by unidentified assailants in the area.
Mr Jimoh said that the defendant forcibly entered into the farmland of Olayinka Emmanuel to commit felony to wit: stealing.
A NEMA official explained that the grains were to be distributed to all states of the federation to give succour to the most vulnerable groups of persons.
The increase was pinned on the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and the Russia-Ukraine war.
Mr Othman-Ngelzarma said the association would take advantage of initiatives signed during the Egypt COP27 Climate Change Conference.
Farmers in Abia North Senatorial District have pleaded with the government at all levels to support them with farming tools to increase food production in the zone.
Each farmer got 25 kilogrammes of certified rice seeds of FARO 44 variety, three litres of 2,4-D post-emergence herbicide and two litres of liquid fertiliser.
