Kano State Government says it has established three major Agricultural Mechanization Centres across the state to ensure a bumper harvest in the 2026 farming season.
The State’s Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Dr. Danjuma Mahmoud, disclosed to newsmen in Kano.
He said that the centres located in Gaya,Kadawa and Dambatta had been equipped with such machines as combined harvesters, tractors,planters, transplanters, sprayers and thrashers.
Dr. Mahmoud said the centres would be managed under a PPP arrangement and that the machines would be hired to farmers at discounted rates.
He said the government had employed measures to boost farmers’ morale for the 2026 cropping season across the state.
“The government had observed that farmers in the state were distressed by the current relatively low prices of foodstuff, which made them unable to recover their production costs and break even.
“The State Government has purchased fertilizers and the Governor, as usual, is going to sell the fertilizers to the farmers at subsidized rates, so that they will be able to recover some of what they lost during the previous farming season, be it wet season or dry season,” he said.
The Commissioner also said that the State Government would launch a massive agricultural farm implements program to achieve highly mechanized farming in the state.
Dr. Mahmoud said that some of the losses incurred by the farmers during the cropping season were caused by a shortage of rainfall, and that the Ministry had embarked on a program to educate farmers on the appropriate time to plant their crops.
He said that based on information received from NiMet,the ministry through its various channels,advised the farmers on the recommend timing for planting of their crops and fruits.
(The Syndicate)
