The Katsina State Government has allocated a total of 8,614 bags of fertiliser to Sandamu Local Government Area of the state for sale to farmers at subsidised rate.
Alhaji Albashir Baure, Chairman, Fertiliser Distribution Committee, Daura zone, said this while distributing the consignment to farmers in Sandamu on Thursday.
He said that the fertiliser would be distributed to each polling unit of the area so as to ensure that peasant farmers benefited from the gesture.
According to him, each bag of fertiliser will be sold to farmers at a subsidised rate of N1,780 in order to enable ordinary farmers get the commodity with ease.
He noted that the commodity would be distributed to farmers of the area regardless of their political inclinations, because the fertiliser was for all the people of Sandamu.

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