The Gombe State Government said on Sunday that its fertilizer blending plant would begin operation before the end of the year.
The Commissioner for Agriculture, Abba Buba-Biri confirmed this in an interview in Gombe.
“We have already signed an agreement with blenders to use our blending
plant to blend NPK fertilizer for us and they have made remarkable
progress in the process.”, he said.
He added : “We currently have about 5, 000 tons of NPK fertilizer 20-10-10 on ground and we have made order for provision of additional quantity depending on the demand,and we have already started selling it in all our stores in the 11 LGAs.
“So we have fertilizer on ground and we are also to start blending in
our fertilizer blending plant in Gombe to make it available to our
farmers and the region.”
He further said that the government had made available tractors for hiring at subsidized rate for land preparation.
