Hon Shu’abu Wakili has promised to work hard to ensure that rice farming has continued to expand and develop in Katsina State.
Wakili is a member representing Kafur Local Government in Katsina State House of Assembly and immediate past chairman of Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria, RIFAN, Katsina chapter made the pledge in an interview with pressmen.
He said rice farming has grown tremendously in Katsina State in the last eight years and “we will ensure it expands and develop to meet food security in Nigeria.
This will be done in making legislations that will guarantee the steady supply agriculture imputs such as fertilizers, seeds and seedlings, pesticides, farming implements at affordable prizes for farmers as well as markets for harvested crops.
The farmers in Katsina State should count themselves lucky for having progmatic and vibrant governor who is also an agriculture expert with the zeal improve small holder businesses.
Now that Katsina State has a rice milling company, rice farmers should not entertain fear in marketing their produce after harvest.
Hon. Wakili therefore sought continued cooperation with the state government ard all relevant stakeholders to join hands in the development of agriculture and other economic and social efforts of the Gov. Dikko Radda government.
On the leadership of the Katsina State House of Assembly, Hon Wakili expressed satisfaction with the emergence of the speaker and the other principal officers believing in their capacity to lead the house in proving quality legislations that will move Katsina State forward.
