About 700 smallholder farmers displaced by bandits from their villages in Niger State have received farm inputs for the rainy season farming.
The inputs were given by the Victims Support Funds (VSF) to the farmers who returned to their communities for the rainy season farming
Speaking during the distribution at Kuta in Shiroro local government area of the state, Executive Director of VSF, Professor Nana Tanko said the VSF had been supporting smallholder farmers in communities affected by insurgency in the North East and other parts of Nigeria.
Tank said the support was meant to restore their livelihoods by re-establishing their agricultural and food production capacity through the provision of requisite inputs, machinery, and extension services.
“The Chairman of VSF, Gen TY Danjuma (Rtd) has directed the Victims Support Fund, to support 3000 smallholder farmers across Borno, Adamawa, Yobe, and Niger States to boost rain-fed farming in crises affected communities’’, she said.
