Ebonyi, FG partners on dry-season farming

To guarantee food security, the federal government and the state of Ebonyi are collaborating on dry season farming.

While addressing journalists on the results of this week’s executive council meeting in Abakaliki, the capital of Ebonyi State, Jude Okpor, Commissioner for Information and State Orientation, revealed this.

He mentioned that during the executive council meeting, Mrs. Nkechinyere Iyioku, the state’s commissioner of agriculture and natural resources, gave a report on an impromptu visit to the state by a team from the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security. The visit’s goal was to investigate ways in which the federal government and the state could work together to promote dry season farming in the state, particularly in the production of rice.

Okpor, the state’s commissioner of agriculture, stated that the team praised the government and people of Ebonyi State for their outstanding and devoted efforts toward the nation’s food security, particularly in rice production and other agricultural activities, following their assessment tour of Ezillo farms and other rice projects in the state.

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