Farmers to receive fertilizer, seeds by e-wallet

Alhaji Bukar Tijian, the Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, has stated that farmers in Nigeria are to redeem their Growth Enhancement Support Program (GES) fertilizer and seeds through the electronic wallet system.

This disclosure was made by the minister at the launch of the GES program in Abuja.

The GES program is an initiative of the federal government aimed at subsidizing costs of major agricultural inputs such as fertilizer and seeds for farmers in the country.

The scheme aims to empower farmers to increase their yield and encourage a shift from subsistence to commercial farming, based on an electronic registration and validation process.

The minister revealed that from April 30 farmers in the southern part of the country can redeem their Growth Enhancement Support electronically.

He added that the beneficiaries would use their voucher cards to redeem the support and the seeds to be disbursed are those used mainly for rice, maize and soy bean plantation.

Segun Adekoye