The Ministry of Agriculture is looking forward to assisting more crop and livestock farmers in the new financial year.
The ministry, through the Demand Driven Approach Programme, in the last financial year with a total budget of $4.5 million, assisted a total of 150 farmers both in the livestock and crop sector.
Crop farmers were assisted with farm equipment, fertilizers, chemicals, manure, land preparation (digger and tractor works), planting materials (dalo, yaqona, yam, cocoa, watermelon, okra, citrus, pineapple), borehole drilling, irrigation equipment, water tanks, farm storage materials, green house and pack‑house materials.
The livestock farmers were assisted with shed materials, water supply equipment (water tanks, polythene pipe, water pump), fencing materials (barbed wire, staples, pine post), drainage and land prep (digger work, gravel loads, tractor hire), fertilizer, chaff‑cutter, bole hole and machinery (petrol generator).
