The North East Development Commission, NEDC, through its Adamawa Office has donated agricultural and produce processing machines to farmers in the state. The materials include 40 ridgers and 302-discploughs; 35 walking tractors and 35 trailers, 30 planters & harvesters, and 16 rice mills as well as 2000 bags of fertilizer.
They were handed to the Adamawa State Food Security Committee for distribution to farmers.Fatima Bakari, acting Coordinator of the NEDC in Adamawa State at the commission’s state store in the capital, Yola, presented the materials to benefitting groups comprising physically challenged community, religious groups, farmers and some other residents of the state. She also announced that in the commission’s latest interventions, it is desilting and evacuating municipal waste from drainages spanning 60,000 metres within the state, she urged equitable distribution by group leaders to intended beneficiaries.
Food and non-food items including 30,000 bags of rice; brocades and children’s wears and blankets were handed to cooperative groups, religious groups; and people with disability and other vulnerable persons. She advised representatives of benefitting groups to follow suggested criteria in ensuring that the items get to those who need them most.Dishi Khobe, Chairman of Adamawa State Food Security Committee while receiving the agricultural machines meant for farmers lauded the NEDC for donating the agricultural machines and fertilizer, assured the commission that items will be equitably distributed to farmers cooperatives that had already been identified for onward distribution to end users.