In Katsina State, the federal government conducted a massive aerial spray of chemicals across four local government areas.
A survey of markets across the region showed that prices of the commodity had shot up by over 100 per cent in the last year.
“Fifty kilograms of NPK fertiliser currently is going for N17,000; urea is N25,000 while a litre of organic fertiliser is sold for N6,000,” said RIFAN’s chair in Delta.
The region is in the grip of a historic drought brought on by four consecutive failed rains.
The permanent secretary said the government had established a nursery for reforestation of forest reserves at a reduced cost, using the green guards.
Some farmers in the South-East have decried the high cost of fertilisers, noting that they have resorted to other sources of manure for their crops.
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said the flood destroyed 1,750 hectares of farmland.
During his visit, the UN chief will stop by one of the three Ukrainian ports involved in the framework of the Black Sea Initiative to export wheat grain.
“The ministry wishes to state that if the statement emanated from the House Public Account Committee, the committee must have been quoted out of context.”
Mercury’s toxicity devastated the fishing villages in Minamata Bay, Japan, in the middle of the 20th century, and as a result, governments adopted the convention in 2013.
