The Commissioner for Agriculture and Forestry, Kaduna State, Dr Daniel Maigari, has said the state government is committed to ensuring improvements in agricultural production in the state. Maigari made the assertion on Tuesday in Kaduna during a sensitization workshop of Stakeholders in the Sunflower Value Chain in Kaduna. He said the workshop was to sensitise farmers to enable them became sustainable in the development of sunflower farming. He said in Kaduna state, the state government has invested in the anchor borrowers’ programme and it has assisted 12,000 farmers. Habibu said: “We encourage Nigerian farmers to plant and harvest it so as to process it into oil and export it.

Source: The Guardian February 14, 2019 04:07 UTC