Otukpo: NEMA distributes two trailer load of Agro-Input relief materials to 1,200 farmers

National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), today, Thursday July 18tth, 20199, distributed two trailer load of Agro-imput relief materials to 1,200 farmers whose farmlands were destroyed by flood last year in Otukpo..

The farmers were reported to have lost their farmlands in the various wards, due to flooding, occasioned by torrential rain fall in 2018.

The leader of NEMA delegation under whose auspices NEMA is distributing the items, Dr. Ejike Martins, a Deputy Director, Budget and Planning,( NEMA) said the materials are being distributed at the instances of National Food Security Council (NFSC).

He said the items were basically agro-inputs and the beneficiaries were those that did not receive any form of intervention from the state government.

Dr. Martins said, “The distribution of the agro-inputs relief material is made in a form of package which includes seedling, agro-chemicals and knapsack sprayers for each beneficiary”.

“The support was initiated by the Presidency to empower and build food security in communities whose means of livelihood was destroyed”, he further said.

The Caretaker Chairman of Otukpo Local Government Council, Rt. Hon George Alli, accompanied by Council Officials and Royal Father, the Oche’Otukpo Odu, HRH, Chief. Dr. John Eimonye, thanked the Federal Government and NEMA for coming to the aid of the farmers. Hon. George Alli promised to ensure proper redistribution of the items.