 The United States government through USAID has provided high quality seedlings to farmers in nine local governments of Adamawa State, marking World Food Day and reducing the impact of erratic rains and floods. Our correspondent filed this report. The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, IITA, is collaborating with Nigeria Integrated Agriculture Activity to provide assistance to farmers in Adamawa State and Nigeria. The programme, funded by the United States government, is operating in nine local governments to ensure food security and produce more crops. The initiator uses established 175 demo plots, including 94 in Adamawa, 75 in Bodinu and 6 in Gombe. USAID set aside to showcase and demonstrate the effect of improved practices that we are invited in our farmers all over the season. From the beginning of the season, we've had so many things with our farmers. We have trained them in good agronomic practices. We have trained the community-based seed producer in improved seed progression and marketing techniques. We have trained our farmers, and we have been supporting our farmers on the demo plots to improve the practical aspect of good agronomic practices. Governor Fintiri praised and abused government for declaring a state of emergency in agriculture to end poverty, hunger and ensure food security, thinking the project organizes and farmers. I promised you that as long as you'll be involved in dry season farming this year, that he is ready to support you with all the inputs that you need. He said, you know, this year we have erratic rainforests, coupled with the flood we had. We are in October, but we had flood, which has so much large size of farmlands, which means there will be no yield from those farms. He said, as you recall, everyone of us here participate in dry season farming, particularly in this particular location, where we have the land and we have the water. Farmlands are learning practical practices and new technologies during our demonstration with beneficiaries and partner organization members sharing their views. Clearly, it helps me a lot because I've been coming to the farm and working like manually using my energy, but now I've learned a lot, even if I come, I'll know how to farm and the type of crops to use and the type of land to use. And also, they have promised to assist us with some machines to use in the farm, so I know it will ease my farming. We have to embrace change. And then the only way we can embrace change is to try to now embrace new farming technologies. We cannot be a drive to productivity, profitability, and sustainability. That's the reason why we are here today. And that's why we are trying to teach, I mean, let people know about the new technology or about, I mean, improvements on, I mean, using improved variety that are resilient to all these weather figurines and then they are based on this resistance and high yielding and early maturing. The U.S. government is implementing the Feed the Future program to ensure food security in northeast Nigeria, providing families with environmentally friendly seedlings to increase crop production. Hello. Hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.