Bauchi State Government launches 2025 agricultural irrigation program.

Governor Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed has launched the 2025 irrigation support Program to irrigate farmers in the State.

Represented at the occasion by his Deputy, Muhammad Auwal Jatau, Governor Bala Mohammed said the deliberate initiatives of his administration in the agricultural sector was aimed at reducing food inflation in the State.

He highlighted some achievements recorded in the agricultural sector to include provision of mechanized farming tools, seeds, and the revival of the Bauchi fertilizer company for optimum production.

He solicited for the support of the private sector in the agricultural sector in providing mechanized farming tools to boost food production in Bauchi State and Nigeria as a whole.

In his remark, the State Commissioner of Agriculture Dr. Iliyasu Aliyu Gital hinted that dry season farming has been in the fore-front in ensuring food security globally, hence the need to continue investing in the agricultural sector to fight hunger in the Society.

The commissioner explained that since it’s inception, the present administration is giving the agricultural sector the much priority needed which he said it’s impacts has just began manifesting.

Iliyasu Aliyu Gital pledged that ministry of agriculture will continue to strive hard in producing qualitative fertilisers that the state is well known for to continue in it’s effort of boosting agricultural production.Earlier, the Executive Chairman Bauchi local government area Mahmud Baba Ma’aji emphasized the importance of farming inputs to the irrigation farmers in the State which he acknowledged will compliment that of the federal government’s initiative of irrigate Nigeria project aimed at enhancing food security.

Mahmud Baba Ma’aji thanked Governor Bala Mohammed for providing technological advanced farming tools to the irrigation farmers and warned the farmers not to sale the items given to them.