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Kwara government distributes 42,000 bags of fertilisers

The Kwara State Government on Wednesday began the distribution of 42,000 bags of fertilisers to farmers across the state.

The fertilisers were donated to the state government by the Central Bank of Nigeria through the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security.

The Senior Special Assistant to Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Community Development, Lawal Olohungbebe, who supervised the distribution, said each farmer will get at least three bags of fertilisers at no cost.

“This is a federal government’s intervention that complements what the state government has already done on three different occasions,” Mr Olohungbebe said.

“Here we have 50 trucks of NPK fertilisers and 20 trucks of Urea fertilisers, making 70 trucks altogether, donated by the Central Bank of Nigeria through the Federal Ministry of Agriculture to the people of Kwara State,” he sat at the inauguration ceremony.