Agricultural Productivity Enhancement
In efforts to improve agricultural production and productivity, the distribution of:
- Five hundred seventeen thousand four hundred (517,400) pre germinated chitted nuts
- Five million eight hundred one thousand, five hundred sixty six (5,801,566) cassava cuttings
- Seventy seven thousand eight hundred and sixty five (77,865 ) coco pods which gives a minimum of 1,946,625 cocoa seedlings)
- Five thousand two hundred (5,200) budded cocoa seedlings
- Five hundred thirteen thousand five hundred forty three ( 513,543 ) plantain plantlets
- Twenty two thousand seven hundred eighty nine (22,789 ) budded citrus
- Fifty one and a half (51.5) tons potato seeds
- Thirty two (32 ) tons of improved rice seeds
- Four (4.4) tons of groundnut seeds
has taken place to farmers and coopertives accross all nine Basins.
For the 2022 farming season it is expected that:
- four hundred and twenty five thousand (425, 000) pre germinated oil palm chitted nuts
- two million seven hundred and ten thousand (2,710,000) cassava cuttings,
- thirty seven thousand (37,000) cocoa pods
- thirty four thousand (34,000) citrus seedlings
- four hundred and thirty one thousand two hundred (431,200) plantain suckers/plantlets
- thirty thousand two hundred and fifty (30,250) rice seeds
- sixty thousand (60,000) ground nut seeds and two hundred thousand (200,000) potato seeds
will be distributed to farmers at very highly subsidized prices.