FG distributes 500 threshers, 100 tillers to rice farmers

The Federal Government, on Thursday,  in Abuja, distributed 500 units of threshers and 100 units of power tillers to rice producing farmers in 12 states.
Speaking at the ceremony, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh listed the benefiting as Ebonyi, Niger, Taraba, Kaduna, Enugu, Kebbi, Jigawa, Katsina, Oyo, Anambra, Kano, and Bayelsa.
Ogbeh said in the next two years, the government would facilitate another 5,000 of the machines for farmers across the country.