The Abia State Council of Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, has enjoined residents of the state to massively embark on farming to boost local production, as a practical measure to curtail the scarcity and astronomical rise in prices of food items.
This was part of the NUJ’s 8-point communique signed by Abia NUJ Chairman, Victor Ndukwe and Adaeze Ralph Igbokwe, Secretary, after the monthly congress of the union in Umuahia, the Abia state capital.
The Union also urged the Abia State Government to make farm inputs such as fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides and improved varieties of seeds available to farmers at subsidized rates. Not only that, the body of journalists also want the government to put strategies in place for uptake of the yields during harvest.
NUJ members went further to commend the NLC in Abia State for joining their counterparts across the country in organizing a peaceful protest against the current hardship in the country and advised the state government to urgently come up with a wage award and other incentives for workers.