Farmers in Bauchi State have been given 6000 bags of 50kg fertiliser as support for their wet season farming in order to have a bumper harvest.

The fertiliser was donated by a philanthropic group, known as Wunti Al-Khair Foundation which is committed to supporting less privileged and vulnerable people in the State.

Speaking during the flag off ceremony of the distribution of the fertilisers on Thursday, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, Wunti Al-Khair Foundation, Abubakar Mohammed, said that the distribution was only for the indigent farmers across the state.

He also said that the fertilisers would be distributed to farmers in underserved communities across the three Senatorial Districts of the state.

According to him, “We are gathered here to flag off the free distribution of fertilisers to farmers, especially the indigent farmers that don’t have the means to buy fertiliser for their farms.”

Abubakar Mohammed added, “That is the reason why the founder of this foundation bought the fertilisers and distributed them to the low income farmers in the state.”

He further said, “We have gone round the nooks and crannies of the state to identify the underserved communities and those that deserve this particular gesture.”

“We planned to distribute about 6,000 bags of fertiliser and due to the populous nature of the Bauchi LGA, they have the largest share but some other local governments too have hundreds of beneficiaries which we divided into Senatorial zones,” he said.

According to him, Thursday was the flagging off of the Bauchi South Senatorial District, adding that the extension of the gesture would commence in Bauchi North and Bauchi Central Senatorial Districts on Friday.

Abubakar Mohammed explained that the only criteria used in selecting the beneficiaries were underserved communities and low income farmers, adding that “we know that a large number of the farmers in Bauchi state are low income farmers.

According to him, “Those are the people that we identified, verified and they are our beneficiaries and we have warned the general public about the activities of some unscrupulous elements that go round to impersonate our foundation.”

He explained that, “Wunti Al-Khair Foundation is not charging a kobo for every part of its activities, be it education, healthcare, economic empowerment and community development”.

Responding, one of the beneficiaries, Emmanuel Samson, described the support as a timely intervention that would greatly enhance his farming activities and appreciated the foundation for the intervention.

Another beneficiary, Salisu Maidawa, who was short of words for the gesture, said the gesture came at a time when he was in dire need of it.

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