Small-scale Women Farmers Organisation in Nigeria, Gombe State chapter, have decried the rising insecurity in the North-East.
It lamented that the security challenges in the region had negatively affected food production.
The group stated these in a-14 point communiqué issued shortly after a stakeholders’ consultative meeting towards Scaling Up Investment in Agriculture organised by Hope Foundation for the Lonely with support from Action Aid Nigeria.
According to the communiqué signed by the Chairman, Yusuf Atiku, the women farmers urged the government to strengthen the security mechanism to avoid crises in the region. They also urged the state government to implement the yearly allocation dedicated to women farmers.
“The Gombe State Government should ensure the implementation as budgeted in the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry budgetary allocation for smallholder women farmers. The government should ensure easy access to credit facilities at single-digit interest rates to be made available to smallholder women farmers across the state.