Gov Alia slashes fertiliser price to N28,000 for Benue farmers

Benue State Governor, Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Alia, has approved a 51 per cent subsidy connected fertiliser, bringing the outgo of a container down to N28,000 for farmers crossed the state, successful a determination aimed astatine enhancing cultivation output and ensuring nutrient security.

The politician announced the subsidy on Thursday during the motorboat of the 2026 Fertiliser and Agricultural Inputs Sales and Distribution Programme held astatine the Benue Fertilizer Blending Plant successful Makurdi.

Alia explained that the involution was designed to cushion the interaction of expanding farming expenses and promote greater information successful cultivation activities passim the state.

He stated that the fertiliser organisation inaugural aligns with the administration’s wider cultivation improvement plan, which seeks to grow farmland done onshore aggregation, amended entree to prime workplace inputs, and summation wide productivity.

“This inaugural is not conscionable a seasonal involution but a deliberate argumentation absorption designed to heighten nutrient security, grow cultivated farmlands done onshore aggregation, and stimulate agrarian economical prosperity,” the politician said.

According to him, sustaining Benue’s estimation arsenic Nigeria’s nutrient handbasket requires strategical investments successful modern farming techniques and continuous enactment for section farmers.

The politician said the 2026 organisation workout would scope farmers successful each ...