Kano to prosecute dealers of fake agrochemicals — KSCPA

The Kano State Consumer Protection Agency (KSCPA) has warned that anyone recovered selling fake oregon adulterated agrochemicals successful the authorities volition beryllium prosecuted.

The Executive Secretary of the agency, Dr Ibrahim Garba Muhammad, gave the informing during a strategical gathering with the recently elected enforcement members of the Kano State Agrochemical Dealers Association astatine the agency’s headquarters.

He said the bureau would not tolerate the merchantability of counterfeit pesticides, herbicides, and different cultivation inputs that person continued to origin dense losses to farmers.

“The wide circulation of these counterfeit cultivation inputs straight undermines our nutrient information and bankrupts our hardworking farmers. We volition deploy the afloat value of our regulatory laws to prosecute immoderate vendor recovered compromising prime for greedy nett margins,” Dr Muhammad said.

According to him, the bureau has received respective complaints from smallholder farmers, peculiarly successful Kura and Garun Malam Local Government Areas, wherever fake and heavy diluted workplace chemicals person reportedly damaged crops and reduced harvests.

He described the concern arsenic a large menace to the state’s cultivation sect...