 Still in the news, 100,000 small-scale rice farmers have been enlisted to benefit from the federal government's anchor-borrow scheme for the 2021 wet farming in Adamao state. This was announced at the flag-enough of wet season farming in Geya, Chiftam, at the state coordinator of the Rice Farmers Association, Wafari Dalatu. Despite the myriad of security threats militating against farmers in the north-east, the Rice Farmers in Adamao state have celebrated a successful output during the dry farming season. Speaking at the flag-enough of this year's wet farming season, the state coordinator of the Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria, Wafari Dalatu, explained that dry season farming was partially affected by COVID-19 in 2021 in the state. The input supply was late though, but so far as we understand the impact of COVID-19 during that time which affected all economic activities, more especially in Bosani, so inputs that are imported from overseas. Some of our suppliers have made it a little in this which led to delay in supplies. The project in 2020 dry season empowered 12,000 small-scale farmers in Adamao state out of the 13,500 applications that we received. He thanks President Mohamed Buhari for making farming lucrative, urging the beneficiaries to fulfill just side of the bargain for sustainability of the project. He sends DICE members on effective modalities for loan payment. Safety, power, this season, up to 100,000 small-scale farmers in Adamao state. However, as ambitious as our goal is, this project shall not compromise its guidelines and implementations. Today, we are flagging out the distribution of 5-inquays to rice farmers in Nigeria though. We are confident that with the deployment of best agronomic practices and with the quality of inputs that we are distributed today, our farmers will produce between 60 to 80 bags of caddy rice per hectare. The farmers and beneficiaries shares on how the Anko boroughs through the reefing has transformed their lives. I will try to make sure that I use these items properly and I will normally am a farmer, so I lack something that I can use so that I can help myself in terms of progressing. I am a beneficiary of this reefing program by Mr President. You know, farming has become a very lucrative business these days. So as a farmer, I remember last time we were given inputs for rice farming season and I am a beneficiary and I have benefited much from it. Representative of the CBN Adamao Yusuf commanded the Waferi for the transparent process of distribution and collaborating with stakeholders to identify real and practicing farmers. 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.