Governor Zulum engages 6,111 farmers in mega farm schemes-Nigeria

Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State has engaged 6,111 farmers into the state’s mega farm schemes in 10 local government areas of the state. He said the schemes will encourage farmers and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) return to their communities and fully engage in farming activities. Borno offers free dialysis to 1,000 kidney disease patients Zulum pledges to boost food production in Borno This was disclosed Monday by the Commissioner of Agriculture, Alhaji Bukar Talba, at an inter-ministerial briefing in Maiduguri, the state capital. “They are to farm alongside these mega farms and beef up security apparatus,” he said, adding that they are also to expand farmlands with protections provided by Agro Rangers, Civilian JTF and hunters, while on the farms.