The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has
commenced the distribution of high yielding crop seedlings to over 10,000
victims of conflicts and the 2018 flood victims in Adamawa State.
The Supervisor in-charge of Conflict, Establishing Emergency Agricultural
Intervention programme of NEMA, Yakubu Suleiman, in Yola at the weekend disclosed
that beneficiaries are to receive fertilizer, rice, maize, tomatoes, cassava and
cotton seedlings in the 16 local government areas affected.
Suleiman said the intervention programme, which
would be implemented in phases, was initiated to empower and build food
security in communities which means of livelihood were destroyed.
He stated that the agency in conjunction with the state
Ministry of Agriculture and LGAs Divisional Agricultural Officers (DAOs) had
compiled the lists of beneficiaries and mapped out strategy for distribution of
the seedling.
He added that the agency in the state would liaise
with security agencies and agricultural extension works to ensure timely
distribution, assuring them that measure had also been put in place to curtail diversion
and shortchanging of the items.
"The intervention is the first of its kind in
the state. NEMA officials are going to the hinterland to distribute the items
directly to the beneficiaries.
"We have provided crops seedling that would
sustain the people after cultivation to improve their living standard," he
said.
In his remark, NEMA Supervisor in-charge of flood, Mr.
Bitrus Samuel, noted that the intervention is to address the need of persons
affected to enable them recover from the disaster.
Samuel urged beneficiaries to provide national
identity card as means of identification to facilitate the 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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