In order to ensure food sufficiency and end hunger in the area, a lawmaker representing Ikwo/Ezza South federal constituency of Ebonyi, Hon Chinedu Ogah has distributed a cash grant of N70 million and 200 bags of 25kg rice seeds to rural farmers in the constituency.
Hon Ogah, who is the House Committee chairman on Reformatory Institutions, said he has also procured 30 bags of fertilizers to be distributed to the rural farmers in the constituency to ensure a bumper harvest.
The lawmaker made the distribution at the Edukwu-Edu playground in Item Amagu Community in Ikwo local government area of the state, where he noted that the rice seeds will be distributed to the 31 wards in the constituency.
According to Hon Ogah, the rice seeds are not for consumption but for planting and warned the farmers against consuming the rice seeds.
In his words: “Let me sound a note of warning that the seeds are only for planting; it is not for consumption. Please, no matter the level of hunger, don’t cook it to eat.”
To end the high cost of food items and commodities in the country, he stressed, there is the need for all to go into farming.
“The small farm or garden in our backyard and compound can provide some of the food items we purchase from the market. There is the need for us to go into farming,” he said.