Senator Buhari Empowers Another 250 Farmers, Distributes 1000 Bags of Fertilisers to Improve Food Production
By Semiu Azeez
A total of 250 farmers selected from the 13 local government areas of Oyo North Senatorial District have been empowered by Senator Buhari Abdulfatai as he distributed 1000 bags of fertilisers to them all.
Each of the 250 beneficiaries who belonged to different farmers associations and local government areas across Oyo North converged at Senator Buhari’s residence, Ogbomoso, yesterday, Wednesday, March 5, 2025, to collect four bags of fertiliser in the early hours of today.
The project, facilitated by the outstanding lawmaker, was sponsored by Federal Cooperative College, Oji River, and executed by Royalroche Hathaway Company Limited with the aim of supporting farmers in the district to improve their agricultural produce as the rainy season commences very soon.
Prominent among the farmers associations that benefitted from the empowerment were the All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) in Oyo North, the Oke Ogun Oluwaseun Farmers Association, the All Females Farmers Income Generating Association, and the Oke Ogun Youths Association of Farmers.
Also, members of the Agbeloba Groups of Farmers Associations, Aanu Oluwapo Farmers Association, Ogo Oluwa Kiitan Farmers Association, Organic Livestock and Crops Owners Association of Nigeria, and Ola Oluwa Farmers Association, among other associations, benefitted from the gestures.
Aside from the members of farmers associations, a farmer was selected from the 134 wards in the senatorial district to make a total of 134 people from ward level, while the remaining 116 slots were shared among the groups to make the sum of 250 beneficiaries, with each going home with four bags of fertiliser.
While distributing the fertilisers to the beneficiaries, Senator Buhari, who was represented at the event by the Chairman, All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo North Senatorial District, Mr. Tunde Oloyede, charged the beneficiaries to make the best use of the items to increase their productivity.
Senator Buhari expressed hope of seeing Oyo North as a senatorial district with utmost contributions to the gross domestic products of Nigeria and to boost the economy of the great Nigeria of his dream.
It shall be recalled that the lawmaker in the last five weeks had empowered 550 people from various categories of his constituents on different entrepreneurship training with a start-up package of 100 thousand naira and their certificates of participation so that they can all become employers of labour.
