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The Nasarawa State Government has commenced the harvest of its 10,000-hectare rice farm located in the Jangwa community of the Awe Local Government Area of the state.
Governor Abdullahi Sule who visited the farm to monitor the harvest on Thursday, said 2,000 hectares of the land which was planted six months ago, is now being harvested to ensure food security in the state.
Sule, while explaining that due to the improved variety of the rice, said the crop would be cultivated twice a year, noted that the project was in line with the Renewed Hope Initiative of President Bola Tinubu’s administration which is aimed at tackling hunger in the country.
He said, “The project is an inclusive one as it has carried both the youths and women in the planting and harvesting of the rice. A lot of indigenes have been employed as a result of this farm.”
“As part of efforts to ease transportation of the farm produce, we have awarded the contract for the construction of 18 kilometres asphalt road from Rabi to Jangwa community.”
While calling for the sustenance of the agricultural project in the area, Sule appreciated the people of the state, especially the residents of Jangwa community for their cooperation and support thus far in ensuring that hunger is eradicated in the state.
In their separate interviews with PUNCH Online, a community leader in the Ayarkeke-Jangwa community, Justin Shaku and another youth leader in the area, Yusuf Jangwa, both lauded the state government for conceiving the initiative.
They said the project had so far benefitted both the youths and women in the area, and therefore, called for more of such initiatives to improve the standard of living of the entire residents of the state.
The duo also called on the state government to provide more infrastructures, especially roads to the communities around the 10,000 hectares of rice farmland to enable the easy transportation of their farm produce to the markets.
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