Kwara: Agency Supports Farmers With Solar-Powered Pumps

Date: 2023-11-17

The Rural Electrification Agency, REA, in collaboration with National Fadama Development Project, NFDP, has supported dry season farming across the 16 local government areas of Kwara State with Solar Powered Irrigation Pumps, to enhance food security in the State and to ensure all year-round in farming/cropping.

This is coming as a result of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed in July 2022 between REA and (NFDP).

Presenting the solar-powered irrigation pumps, the Higher Technical Officer, Rural Electrification Agency, North Central Zone, Engr. Adebayo Babatunde disclosed that “the initiative is aimed at improving utilisation of Land and Water Resources across the major rivers in the country.”

He noted that implementation of the programme by REA started with thirteen pivotal states of which Kwara is one and that the beneficiary subproject sites selected include communities with Farmers' User Groups, FUGs, surface water schemes, subproject sites requiring upgrades in electrification infrastructure and others.

Receiving the items on behalf of the Kwara State Government, the Project Coordinator, Kwara Fadama CARES, Engr. Dr. Busari Toyin Isiaka, thanked the Rural Electrification Agency for bearing Kwara Farmers in mind, adding that such initiative is in order with the remarkable agricultural policy of Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq-led administration to ensure increase in farm produce, across the state.

“The development is complementing various support schemes being executed by AbdulRazaq, to improve the State's agricultural sector, as His Excellency has turned Kwara to a buoyant and conducive agrarian state, for farmers,” he stated.

The Coordinator explained further that the Rural Electrification Agency, REA, and the National Fadama Development Agency, NFDA, have thought outside the box to ensure sustainability of Farmers' User Groups' farming activities intended to boost agricultural production and charged the beneficiaries on effective utilisation of the pumps.

Responding, representatives of the beneficiaries expressed their profound gratitudes to the benefactor for the support, adding that items distributed will enhance their productivities in agricultural activities.

The beneficiaries included Eighteen Farmer Groups across the 16 Local Government Areas in the State.

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Offa Grammer School     Ashiru     Shola Odetundun     Afolabi-Oshatimehin     Umar Yakubu Jaja     Cornelius Adebayo     Reuben Paraje     Gurei     Awoye     Oluranti Idowu     Col. Ibrahim Taiwo     Maigidasanma     AbdulRazaq AbduMajeed Alaro     Hijaab     Mashood Dauda     Justina Oha     Egbejila     Idowu Laro     GGDSS Pakata     ASMAU PLAZA     Soffiyyallah Kamaldeen     Elerin Of Adanla     Monthly Sanitation     Shonga Farm Project     Idi-Ape     Ilesha-Gwanara     Forgo Battery     Saad Omo\'ya     Press Release     Ajakaye     Rotimi Atere     Al-Ilory     Ibrahim Abduquadri Abikan     Niyi Osundare     Saka Aleshinloye     Oloye     Aisha Gobir     Oba-Solagberu     Olanrewju Okanlawon Musa     Saadu Yusuf     Nigeria Foundation For Artificial Intelligence     Bayo Mohammed Onimode     Tuesday Assayomo     Oyelere Oyinloye     Idris Amosa Oladipo Saidu     Olusegun Adeniyi     Ahmed Ayinla Jimoh     Sunday Fagbemi     Emir Of Yashikira     Aliyu U. Tilde     Valsolar Consultoria     Aremu Bose Deborah     Yusuf Olaolu Ali     General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport Ilorin     Kisra     Bashir Adigun     Oluwatoyin Lukman     Monkey Pox     Sheikh Hamzat Yusuf Ariyibi     Lafiagi     Adebayo Mohammed Kamaldeen     Abdulmajeed Abdullahi     Suleiman Abubakar     Ophthalmological Society Of Nigeria     Abdulrasheed Akogun     Sardauna     Maigida     Raji AbdulRasaq     Lithium Deposit     Issa Memunat Moyosore     Fatimah Abdulkadir     Solomon Edoja     IPSAS     Isiaka Saka Opobiyi     Kamaldeen Kehinde     Raliat Islamic Foundation     Abdulrasheed Na\'Allah    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Ahmad Lawan     Kwara University Of Education     Hassanat Bello     Apata Ajele Secondary School     Olosi Of Osi     Taofeek Ibraheem     NSCIA     Rafiu Olasile     Yakubu Shaaba     Ahmed Saidu Rufai     Amina El-Imam     Minimum Wage     Towoju     Gbemisola Oguntimehin     Ayinde Oyepitan     Kwara     Soffiyyallah Kamaldeen     Haliru Dantoro     Centre For Peace And Strategic Studies     Olaitan Adefila     Oko-Erin     Third Estate     Kamaldeen Gambari     Sebastine Obasi     Mamman Saba Jibril     Alumni Association Of The Federal Polytechnic Offa     Memunat Monsuma     Emir Of Ilorin     Michael Imoudu National Institute For Labour Studies     John Kehinde Salako     Durosinlohun Kawu     Bola Sagaya     Ganiyu Taofiq     Mutawali Of Ilorin     Ajayi Okasanmi     Muyiwa Oladipo Kanu     Kwarareports     Abdullahi Biffo     Ayedun     Amina Susa\'a De Ahmed     Twitter     Saliu Ajibola Ajia     Alabe     Mustapha Olanipekun     Kwara Apc     Idris Amosa Oladipo Saidu     Olatunji Ayeni     Ohoro Of Shao     Oko-Olowo     Elewu     IQRA College     Lotus Bank     Kayode Issa     Atiku Abubakar     Bayo Ojo     Alabi Lawal     Haruna Olawale Sulaiman     National Broadcasting Commission     Ibrahim Kayode Adeyemi     Awili Pedro     Doyin Group     Yekini Adio     The Herald     Ekweremadu     Prince Bola Ajibola     Tafidan Kaiama     Timothy Akangbe     Voices Of Tomorrow     Sunday Popo-Ola     Kwara State Coalition Of Business And Professional Associations     Just Law Forum     JMK Construction Company Limited     Rasaq Jimoh     Abdulfatai Baakini     ANCOPPS     Markaz Arabic And Islamic Training Institute, Agege     Olatunji Abdulmumeen