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Sokoto to build 3 dams, buy 244 tractors under agricultural integrated plan

The Sokoto State Government has said it will build three dams under its integrated agriculture project to support Fadama and dry-season farming.

Bashir Achida, the economic adviser to the state governor, said this during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja.

He said the government would purchase 244 additional tractors to boost agricultural activities to ensure mechanisation and commercialisation of agriculture in the state.

Mr Achida said the agricultural integrated plan also entailed all agricultural activities, ranging from the rearing of animals and poultry to the construction of rice mills in all three senatorial zones.

He said the programme would involve cultivating hundreds of hectares of land, noting that the state would leverage its comparative advantage of having rivers and dams for the farmlands.