By Kabir Wurma
The Renewed Hope Initiative for Women Support Programme for the North-Western states of the Federation, with twenty beneficiaries from each of the affected states, with cash support of 10 million naira par state has been launched by Nigeria’s First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu in Birnini Kebbi.
The First Lady, represented by the wife of the Speaker House of Representatives, Hajiya Fatima Tajudeen Abbas said each of the benefiting female farmers would receive Five Hundred Thousand Naira as a deliberate effort to stimulate women participation in Agriculture.
“Agriculture plays pivotal role in achieving sustainable development and food security”, she emphasised.
“Consequently, we are introducing ‘Every Home a Garden’ competition to encourage each Nigerian woman cultivate a garden at home to feed the family and share with neighbours, we want to see food on every table”,
The wife of the Kebbi State Governor, Hajiya Zainab Nasir Idris, said in support of the initiative of the First Lady, she has donated solar powered water pump to each of the benefitting women farmers from the zone to boost their yields.
She thanked Senator Oluremi Tinubu for her magnanimity and the choice of Kebbi State to launch the programme for the North West Region.
In his remarks, Governor Nasir Idris announced that his administration has expended enormous amount of money on the procurement of fertiliser, solar and CNG powered irrigation pumps as well as other agricultural inputs which were distributed free to farmers to strengthen agricultural production in the state.
He gave an assurance that the government would continue to provide an enabling environment to support the participation of women in agriculture including access to market finance and technology for food security.
