By Nicholas Dechi
Makurdi – Mr Thomas Unongo, the Director of Agriculture Services, Benue Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, says dry season farming can assist farmers in efforts to boost their production and income.
Unongo said this on Monday in Makurdi during a stakeholders’ meeting on Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture, which was organised by Synergos to mark the World Food Day.
He said that crops produced during the dry season were often bountiful because the crops got the exact quantity of water and attention that they required from farmers.
He said that during the dry season, natural disasters such as flooding, which often affected several farms, were never a challenge, adding that this meant that farmers incurred little or no disaster-induced losses during dry seasons.
Unongo, therefore, called on farmers in the state to embrace dry season farming so as to better their lot.
Also, Mr Lucky Izobo, the Director of Planning, Research and Statistics, in the ministry called on relevant stakeholders to create awareness on how to produce more food and tackle hunger in the society.
He said that not more than 420,000 people, out of six million inhabitants of Benue, ate three square meals a day.
Mr Jeremiah Jighjigh, the Core Delivery Leader, Kwande Local Government Council in Benue, commended Synergos for assisting farmers to wage war against hunger and malnutrition in Benue and Nigeria in general. (NAN)