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Banditry: Over 50,000 Hectares Of Farmland In Katsina Abandoned By Farmers, Masari Laments
The emir urged the government to step up efforts to end banditry and kidnapping to protect farmers and other citizens.
by SaharaReporters, New York
May 07, 2021
The Governor of Katsina State, Aminu Masari, says farmers abandoned over 50,000 hectares of farmland in 2020 due to bandits attacks.
Masari stated this on Thursday in Katsina at the launch of the 2021 Maize Wet Season Farming and the first Maise Pyramid in Nigeria.
The event was organised by the Maize Association of Nigeria in collaboration with the Central Bank of Nigeria Anchor Borrower Programme.
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According to NAN, the governor said this on Thursday in Katsina at the launch of the 2021 wet season farming for maize.
He said in spite of disruptions caused by the attacks, the farmers recorded good harvests.
He added that more than 1.2 million jobs have been created in the the last five years through agriculture, adding that the programme “has supported the efforts in bringing back the lost glory of the agricultural sector”.
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“For maize production, from 2016 to 2019, there has been an increase in the hectares cultivated during the periods. In the last five years, the state has generated 1.2 million short term jobs, for one to six months, and 249,551 long term jobs from six months and above were created,” the governor added.