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Flood: NEMA distributes seedlings, fertilizer to 10,000 Adamawa farmers

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) is set to distribute high yielding crop seedlings to over 10,000 people affected by the 2018 conflict and flood disasters in Adamawa State.

The Supervisor in charge of conflict under the agency’s Emergency Agricultural Intervention Programme, Yakubu Suleiman, who disclosed this, said beneficiaries would receive rice, maize, tomatoes, cassava and cotton seedlings as well as fertilizer in 16 affected LGAs.

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Suleiman said the intervention programme, to be implemented in phases, was initiated to empower and build food security in communities whose means of livelihood was destroyed.

He announced that the agency, in conjunction with the Adamawa State Ministry of Agriculture and divisional agricultural officers (DAOs) in the LGAs had compiled the list of beneficiaries and mapped out strategy for distribution of the seedlings.

“The intervention is the first kind in the state. NEMA officials are going to the hinterland to distribute the items directly to the beneficiaries,” Suleiman said, assuring that all arrangement had been made to prevent diversion and ensure that identified beneficiaries get the seedlings.

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The LGAs affected by either flooding or conflict that will benefit from the intervention seedlings include Numan, Lamurde , Demsa, Hong, Michika and Madagali.

In his remark, Mr Bitrus Samuel, Supervisor in charge of flood, noted that, the intervention is to address the need of persons affected, to enable them recover from the disaster.

Sammuel urged enumerated beneficiaries, to provide national identify card, as means of identity to facilitated collection of individual live pack, at the distribution centres.

Numan, Lamurde , Demsa, Hong, Michika and Madagali are among the benefiting councils in the state.

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