Farmers in the state have recorded appreciable increase in rice production- Project Coordinator of FADAMA III

    Ikechukwu Jude, Project Coordinator of FADAMA III Additional Financing project in Enugu State, says farmers in the state have recorded appreciable increase in rice production.

   Jude told newsmen in Enugu that the feat was recorded because of the provision of farm assets and irrigation facilities in the state.
   No fewer than 5,000 farmers in the state had been supported via the provision of irrigation facilities, threshers, pesticides, machetes and other inputs in the last two farming cycles.
   According to Jude, the project office is currently working on the construction of 46.89 kilo meter rural feeder roads, while developing irrigation facilities in four communities in the state.
    Furthermore, the project coordinator said that the state government was striving hard to encourage all year round cultivation of rice, while improving its value chain.