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.

Suleiman Alege Kuranga     Egbejila     Ademola Kiyesola     Garba Ado Sanni     Mogaji Aare     Ahmed Bolaji Nagode     Rotimi Atere     Ilorin Central Mosque     Sulaiman Gado     Kwara-SAPZ Project     Ibikunle Ogunleye     Saidu Yaro Musa     Bayo Ojo     Bello Oyebanji     Yakubu Gobir     Bio Ibrahim     Musbau A. Akanji     Oba David Oyerinola Adedunmoye     Benin Republic     Read With Me     Adedipe     Suleiman Yahya Alapansapa     Pakata     Akeem Lawal     Yusuf Aiyedun     Yusuf Amuda Abubakar     Muritala Olarewaju     Toyosi Thomas     Alliance For Democracy     Babaita     Bayo Lawal     Facemasks     Economic And Financial Crimes Commission     Colleges Of Education Academic Staff Union     Kwara     Onikijipa     Amosa     KWACOBPA     Wasiu Onidugbe     Tsaragi     Funmilayo Isiaka Oniwa     COVID     AbdulHakeem Ajibola Akanbi     Isiaka Danmeromu     Ophthalmological Society Of Nigeria     KWTV     Olaiya Zuberu     Abdulkadir Jimoh     Amos Justus Sayo     Sheikh Ariyibi     Muhammad-Mustapha Suleiman     Ilorin East/South Federal Constituency     Olomu Of Omu-Aran     Ita-Nmo Market     NIRSAL     Toun Okewale-Sonaiya     Sobi FM     Mohammed Lawal     Sarkin Malamai     Sheu Ndanusa Usman     Opobiyi     Oke-Ode     Awwal Jawondo     David Oyepinola Adedumoye     Ganmo Electricity Sub-Station     Taofeek Ibraheem     Saduki Lafiagi     Abdulwaheed Musa     Sadiq Umar     Ahmad Fatima Bisola     Senate President     Salmon Babatunde Salmon     Mutawalle     Muhammad Toyin Sanusi     Monthly Sanitation     Ghali Alaaya     KWIRS    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Afetu Of Alabe     Babata     Babaita     Anilelerin     Okeose Christian Cementary     Olokoba Sulyman     Cornelius Adebayo     Oniyangi     Abdulmumin Yinka Ajia     Oluwole Dupe     CELF     Elese Of Igbaja     Coalition Of Kwara North Groups     Saba Jibril     Olupako     Amule Elementary School     CCB     Sheikh Hamzat Yusuf Ariyibi     Shehu Alimi Foundation For Peace And Development     Olatunji Moronfoye     Iyeru Grammar School     MMWG     Mohammed Kamaludeen     Kemi Adeosun     Kwara Restoration Project     Suleiman Idris     COEASU     Baba Issa Awoye     Suleiman Yahya Alapansapa     Pacify Labs     Yaru     Barakat Community Secondary School     Ahmed Saidu Rufai     Doyin Agbamu     Nurudeen Mohammed     Tsaragi/Share     Saka Abimbola Isau     FOMWAN     Olawuyi     Olatunde Jare     Kulende-UITH     Goodluck Jonathan     Zainab Abass     JUSUN     Muritala Awodun     Bilikisu Oniyangi     Suwa-Arabs     Ahman Patigi     Samuel Adedoyin     Mahmud Ajeigbe     Pakata Development Association     Magaji Are     Kale Ayo     Kwara State Coalition Of Business And Professional Associations     Bayo Mohammed Onimode     Abiodun Abdulkareem     Oko Erin     Mohammed Ajia Ibrahim     Abdulrosheed Okiki     Busari Alabi Alausa     Okin Biscuits     Arik     Dankaka     Sun Qing Rong     Tunji Oyawoye     Ita-Nmo Market     Kwha.gov.ng     CLAY POT     Omotoso Musa     Christopher Tunji Ayeni     Lotus Bank     Olaosebikan     Neuropsychiatric Hospital     Kamaldeen Kehinde     Ilota     Mohammed Yisa     Bello Taoheed Abubakar