Dry Season Farming: ADAS-P Concludes Community Engagements In Adamawa
The Adamawa State Agribusiness Support Programme, ADAS-P, has concluded its four-day community engagements across the eleven selected local government areas of Adamawa state as part of preparations to kick start the 2024 dry season farming initiative.
The team C Engagement of ADAS-P has visited Demsa, Numan, Lamurde and Shelleng.
At Shelleng local government area, the leader of the team Dr. Tasi'u Idi who is the head of Value Chain Development and Climate Smart Agriculture of ADAS-P said the programme will not only boost food production and security but will provide enabling environment for investors from within and outside the country.
Dr Idi added that the aim of the community engagements is identification of community irrigation sites, cluster formation, suitability analysis, farmers database establishment, development of digital farmer identify numbers and formation of community development associations within the local government area.
Speaking on behalf of the traditional institutions, the district head of Shelleng, Alh. Abdurrahman Isa Dason who described the programme as timely, urged ADAS-P to justify the confidence reposed in them by the state government and avoid the mistakes of other agric programmes that failed.
While in Mayo-Belwa and Fufore local government areas, the administrative secretary of ADAS-P implementation committee, Mrs Joy Tarfa explained that the engagement is also part of preparations to kick start the 2024 Adamawa Sustainable Dry Season Agribusiness Project aimed at complementing Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri's efforts to ensuring food security in Adamawa.
In his remarks, the Executive Chairman Mayo-Belwa local government area council, Hon. Umar Nashon Gubi said the programme is inline with his administration's efforts to boost farming and reaffirms his commitment to give necessary support and cooperation to this initiative.
Giving a clear view of the financial requirements for this initiative, the representative of NIRSAL Microfinance Bank Pls, Aliyu Baba Inna said beneficiaries must belong to cooperative society before being incorporated into the programme.
The programme will be carried out by ADAS-P, office of the state Surveyor General, NIRSAL MFB PLC, District Scribes/Heads, local government Directors of agric and natural resources among stakeholders.
