By: Sani Chinade, Damaturu
The Borno Sate Governor Professor Babagana Umara Zulum has distributed farming tools to over 1,750 farmers from three Local Government Areas of Bayo, Shani and Hawul on his fourth day in southern Borno.
The governor distributing the tools to1,000 farmers from Bayo, 500 from Hawul and 250 from Shani who benefited from the intervention.
In a brief ceremony held at the Governor’s lodge in Shani, Gov. Zulum said the intervention was to boost irrigation farming in Borno state.
He stated that intervention was meant to enhance food security in the state noted that Borno State Government will support more farmers in the next farming season.
According to him “We will aim for more next year, we will support our famers to achieve food sufficiency”, Zulum said