Just few days after Governor Willie Obiano flagged off dry season farming in Anambra State, the state government has begun free distribution of high breed farm inputs to six agrarian local government areas in the state.
The farm inputs which included high yield TME419 cassava stems and Faro 44 rice seedlings, were distributed to farmers in Ogbaru, Anambra East and West Local Government Area through the state Ministry of Agriculture.
Dry season farming has become a regular agricultural practice in Anambra State facilitated by rivers , streams and lakes in some parts of the State.
Local government areas like Ogbaru, Ayamelum, Awka North, Ihiala, Anambra East and West usually kick off their farming season at the departure of the rainy season, rounding off harvest just in time before the peak of the rains when flood, which has become a regular threat to lives and farming in the areas, sets in.
It is in understanding of this social circumstance that Governor Obiano has made free distribution of farm inputs to these areas to begin their farming year with the expectation of assured food security given these area’s staus as the food basket of Anambra State.
In separate interviews, the Special Assistant to Governor Obiano on Agriculture, Mr Obioma Mbanefo and the Head, Department of Agric Extension, Anambra State Ministry of Agriculture, Mrs Ifeyinwa Uzoka, said that the distribution of the high yield inputs was a major step taken by the present administration to guarantee food security, and lauded the Anambra State Commissioner for Agriculture, Chief Nnamdi Onukwuba for the milestone he has achieved in the Ministry.
The Deputy Transition Committee Chairman of Ogbaru Local Government Area, Mr Stanley Ukado, who received the distribution team at council’s headquarters, where the farmers in the area converged, thanked Governor Obiano for always remembering farmers especially now when prices of agricultural commodities have become exorbitant.
Some farmer who received the farm inputs, including Mrs Chinelo Nwokocha, Mr Anthony Uzoh and Ifeanacho Obi, disclosed that after the recent flooding in the area, a stack of cassava stems was sold for between one thousand five hundred naira to two thousand naira, noting that with the free inputs from the state government, they could begin their farming in earnest.
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