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NEW: Mbah expands farmers' support programme, approves distribution of 63,000 bags of fertilisers, farm inputs

The Enugu State Government has significantly scaled up its annual agricultural support programme, approving the free distribution of over 63,000 bags of organic and inorganic fertilisers and a wide range of agricultural inputs to registered farmers across the 17 local government areas of the state.

The Commissioner for Agriculture and Agro-Industrialisation, Dr. Patrick Nwabueze Ubru, said the distribution, approved by Governor Peter Ndubuisi Mbah, underscores the administration's commitment to food security, agricultural transformation, and improved livelihoods for farmers.

He disclosed that the programme would be officially flagged off on Tuesday, July 21, 2026, at 9:00 am at Michael Okpara Square, Enugu.

In addition to fertilisers, registered farmers will receive agrochemicals, cassava stems, improved tomato, pepper, rice and maize seeds, as well as other essential agricultural inputs aimed at increasing productivity, boosting yields and strengthening food production across the state.

The 2026 intervention marks another major expansion of the state's agricultural support programme under Governor Mbah.

In 2024, the administration distributed 12,000 bags of fertilisers alongside improved seedlings, cassava stems, herbicides, power tillers and other agricultural inputs as part of a comprehensive intervention valued at over N4.6 billion.

The programme benefited thousands of smallholder farmers and contributed to increased food production across the state.

Building on that success, the government expanded the programme in 2025, increasing the distribution to over 40,000 bags of fertilisers and extending support to more than 60,000 registered farmers across the 17 local government areas.

The intervention also included improved seeds, agrochemicals, cassava stems and mechanisation support. The state government attributed the expansion to the bumper harvests recorded under the previous exercise and its positive impact on food availability and the prices of staple crops.

This year's programme represents the biggest intervention yet. With over 63,000 bags of fertilisers and an expanded package of agricultural inputs earmarked for registered farmers, the government aims to reach even more beneficiaries while accelerating agricultural productivity, improving rural incomes and consolidating Enugu State's drive towards food sufficiency.

Ubru said shortlisted registered farmers would receive SMS notifications from ENSAgric inviting them to collect their allocated farm inputs. He urged all beneficiaries to attend the flag-off ceremony and take full advantage of the government's intervention.

He reaffirmed that Governor Mbah's administration remains committed to equipping farmers with the resources needed to increase production, create wealth, strengthen food security and position agriculture as a major driver of sustainable economic growth in Enugu State.

NEW: Mbah expands farmers' support programme, approves distribution of 63,000 bags of fertilisers, farm inputs

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It’s great headlines coming from Enugu are inspiring

Another mean to steal more money … Bleep 9ja and their backward thinking

We should push for making these inputs locally.
This idea is not sustainable ( of aways buying these expensive inputs , knowing it won't reach everyone or make any real impacts)
Just saying...
( This is not about Enugu alone but Nigeria at large )

Nonsense at it peak. Nnnnn

Nonsense like someone already said...
you forced farmers, market women and food stuff sellers to pay N36k tax , then snap picture with bag of fertilizer for social media propaganda ...

adaxme:
We should push for making these inputs locally.
This idea is not sustainable ( of aways buying these expensive inputs , knowing it won't reach everyone or make any real impacts)
Just saying...
( This is not about Enugu alone but Nigeria at large )

You are very correct that this is not sustainable and it is not about Enugu state alone but the whole country.

Do you think that free basic education for all children is a necessary foundation to creating a knowledgeable workforce to research, design, manufacture, maintain and upgrade such inputs locally in a sustainable manner?

In this regard, has Mbah employed as many as 19,500 teachers employed by Makinde in Oyo?
Has he accessed federal funds from UBEC established over a quarter century ago by the Obasanjo/Atiku administration to help states achieve nine years of free and compulsory education for all children?

Abi Enugu is just as progreThief as Tinubu's Lagos after 27 years of increasing tax burden to grow budget 100 times, the master strategist and his puppets have less than 5% schools run by government? Is that not shameful

anonimi:
Ratio of public to private schools in Lagos State is one to 22 ― Commissioner

The Lagos State government has said the ratio of public to private schools at both primary and secondary school levels in the state is one to 22.

The state’s Commissioner for Education, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, gave the revelation in her remark at the 2022 edition of the Total School Support Seminar Exhibition (TOSSE) held at Oregun in Ikeja between Thursday and Friday.

https://tribuneonlineng.com/ratio-of-public-to-private-schools-in-lagos-state-is-one-to-22-%E2%80%95-commissioner/

Most of these fertilizers given for free are what deplates the nutrients in our soils especially those coming as foreign aid.
Be guided.

Ralp226:
Another mean to steal more money … Bleep 9ja and their backward thinking

That's how the developed world enabled their agric to make it so efficient that you cant compete.....instead of condemning everything like you know it all,you should push for policy advocacy for more govt support to the agric sector......rather than crying that govt should bring back fuel subsidies, push for more subsidy to agric and other incentives to make it more sustainable.

anonimi:
You are very correct that this is not sustainable and it is not about Enugu state alone but the whole country.

Do you think that free basic education for all children is a necessary foundation to creating a knowledgeable workforce to research, design, manufacture, maintain and upgrade such inputs locally in a sustainable manner?

In this regard, has Mbah employed as many as 19,500 teachers employed by Makinde in Oyo?
Has he accessed federal funds from UBEC established over a quarter century ago by the Obasanjo/Atiku administration to help states achieve nine years of free and compulsory education for all children?

Abi Enugu is just as progreThief as Tinubu's Lagos after 27 years of increasing tax burden to grow budget 100 times, the master strategist and his puppets have less than 5% schools run by government? Is that not shameful

Calculate the numbers of thise public schools in lagos and juxtapose with a state like Anambra state then compare who caries more burden,who has more pupils and who caters for more teachers.

You keep regurgitating this stale rhetoric that makinde employed 19,500 teachers and you dont have a single smart school in the state, in what way can you say oyo states educational standards is better than enugu not to even mention lagos.

Lithiumite:
Calculate the numbers of thise public schools in lagos and juxtapose with a state like Anambra state then compare who caries more burden,who has more pupils and who caters for more teachers.

You keep regurgitating this stale rhetoric that makinde employed 19,500 teachers and you dont have a single smart school in the state, in what way can you say oyo states educational standards is better than enugu not to even mention lagos.

What smart parent sends one out of 12 children to a good school while he makes the remaining 11 stark illiterates of school na scam olodo uprising?

How does your Lagos of 27 years Tinubu master plan compare with Jakande's four year record in free education and other sectors?

What was Lagos budget then, even after adjusting for population growth and inflation compared to N4.2 trillion for this year?

eluquenson:
REVISITING SOME OF THE LATEEF JAKANDE'S GOVERNMENT ACHIEVEMENTS FROM OCTOBER 1979 TO DECEMBER 1983 (FOUR YEARS AND 3 MONTHS) IN LAGOS STATE

* His government built the current Lagos State Secretariat which houses all the state ministries as well as the popular round house hitherto occupied by all subsequent governors of the state.

* His government built the Lagos State House of Assembly complex.

* His government built the Lagos State Television

* His government built the Lagos Radio

* His government built Lagos State University

* His government established General Hospital in zones all over the state with assurance of free health care.

* His government established Teacher Training College and the College of Education.

* His government built low cost houses in Ijaiye, Dolphin, Oke-Afa, Ije, Abesan, Iponri, Ipaja, Abule Nla, Epe, Amuwo-Odofin, Anikantamo, Surulere, Iba, Ikorodu, Badagry, Isheri/Olowu, Orisigun etc.

* His government established the Water Management Board and Waste Disposal Board on the 18th of August, 1980.

* His government constructed the Adiyan Water Works to increase water supply in the state to 18.16 million litres per day.

* His government modernized and expanded the Iju Water Works which was first commissioned in 1915. This increased daily capacity from 159 million to 204 million litres per day.

* His government purchased and commissioned the giant car crusher equipment. The equipment was designed specifically to crush derelict vehicles in Lagos State. It had the capacity to crush 45 vehicles per day.

* His government constructed, rehabilitated and resurfaced Epe/Ijebu-Ode Road, Oba Akran Avenue, Toyin Street, Town Planning Way, Alimosho-Idimu-Egbe Road, Idimu-Iba-LASU Road, the new secretariat road and several others.

* His government constructed Victoria Island/Epe Road and thereby creating an ‘oil rig’ for Lagos State.

* His government established Asphalt Plant for the Department of Public Works.

* His government established Electricity Board for Rural Electrification with provision of street lights.

* His government modernized, expanded and commissioned Onikan Stadium in 1982.

* His government established a singular school system and ensured genuine free education in Lagos State and the beneficiaries of this policy are in different positions of eminence in the country and around the world.

* His government raised the primary schools in Lagos State to 812 with 533,001 pupils (against 605 primary schools with 434,545 pupils he met in 1979) and secondary schools to 223 with 167,629 students (against 105 schools with 107,835 students in 1979).

* His government constructed 11, 729 classrooms with the maximum of 40 children per class between March and August 1980, by 1983, he had constructed over 22,000 classrooms.

* In July 1983, two commercial passenger boats christened "Baba Kekere and Itafaji" to run the Mile 2 - Marina (CMS) route via the lagoons were inaugurated by his government to mark the official launch of the Lagos State ferry services.

* His government took over the ownership and financing of Lagos State Printing Corporation in July 1980

* His government established the first State Traffic Management Authority (Road Marshals).

* His government established small scale Industries Credit Scheme which preceded the EKO bank.

*His government established LASACO Insurance.

*His government expanded existing market and built new ones.

*His government established Traditional Medicine Board.

WHO SAYS 4 YEARS IN OFFICE IS NOT ENOUGH FOR MEANINGFUL ACHIEVEMENTS?

IT'S A FACT THAT 90% OF GOVERNORS IN NIGERIA SINCE 1999 WITH REVENUES AT THEIR DISPOSAL CANNOT BOAST OF A QUARTER OF THESE ACHIEVEMENTS EVEN WITHIN THEIR EIGHT YEARS IN OFFICE.

anonimi:
What smart parent sends one out of 12 children to a good school while he makes the remaining 11 stark illiterates of school na scam olodo uprising?

How does your Lagos of 27 years Tinubu master plan compare with Jakande's four year record in free education and other sectors?

What was Lagos budget then, even after adjusting for population growth and inflation compared to N4.2 trillion for this year?

And was it tinubu that destroyed all these legacies you point to,we knew how degenerate public schools were pre 99,we knew what the transportation system was in lagos before tinubu came.......your infantile attempt to try at all cost to discredit that man throws you off as a pedestrian hater who lacks the emotional intelligence to even criticise intelligently.

Lithiumite:
And was it tinubu that destroyed all these legacies you point to,we knew how degenerate public schools were pre 99,we knew what the transportation system was in lagos before tinubu came.......your infantile attempt to try at all cost to discredit that man throws you off as a pedestrian hater who lacks the emotional intelligence to even criticise intelligently.

The degenerate system that produced Fashola and other Lagos elites that are now 50 to 60 years old

No one hates himself more than Stockholm syndrome sufferers who support the worst rogue in Nigeria. The man who increased Lagos revenue 100 times from higher tax burden but failed to increase the number of well paid professional civil servants to make basic government services and utilities available for all.


https://www.nairaland.com/post/125340351

PETAX MBAH on the beat again, how will the beneficiaries be selected?

Enugu state which Gburu Gburu left in the hands of God is now in the hands of propagandists

E be like say their governor de try wella. Kudos to him Aje