As part of its ongoing strategic investment drive to support Nigeria’s food production self-sufficiency and food security aspirations, and its short to medium term value chain developmental efforts aimed at raising the current local production levels of wheat in the country, Crown Flour Mill (CFM), Limited, a leading flour milling business, has provided farming irrigation equipment to some female wheat farmers in Kano state.
The irrigation equipment is meant to assist the female smallholder wheat farmers and ultimately enhance theirproductivity levels. The irrigation equipment comprising mainly of a high-pressure water pumping machine, were formally presented to the female farmers at a ceremony held on Monday, August 16, 2021 in Giyamusu, Ajingi LGA of the state.
The realisation of the productivity potential of women smallholder farmers in the country has largely been
The recipients of the farming irrigation equipment are LauratuKassim, a 40-year-old wheat farmer with three years wheat farming experience, Maryam Ahmad, who has been practicing crop cultivation for many years but went fully into wheat farming four years ago and Atika Shuaibu, another 40-year-old female farmer who started wheat farming two years ago. Shuaibu owns a very big farm where she plants rice and other crops and a wheat farm, but has no pumping machine for irrigation. Hasiya Muhammad, who has had to rely on her husband’s farming equipment to sustain operations on her farmland, and 40-year-old Liti Audu are the other beneficiaries of the farming infrastructure support.
Special guest at the presentation of the irrigation equipment to the female farmers, the Executive
Speaking about the intervention, Rauda Musa Umar, Wheat Development Programme Officer, CFM, said the organis
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According to her, “We will keep providing the necessary farming support and modern agronomic capacity-building training to local wheat farmers to boost wheat farming practices and yields in the country. Our focus, of course, is food security and improving livelihoods.”
Dr. Salim Saleh President Wheat Farmers Associ
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Atika Shuaibu, who spoke on behalf of the other women smallholder farmers, expressed her appreciation for the delivery of the irrigation facility.
She said, “I am so, so happy to receive the machine. With the irrigation machine, most of us will stop hiring pumping machines to water our crops. We will also have a bigger and better harvest. I thank Crown Flour Mill for this assistance.”