Farmers’ season in Anambra begins in 2024.
The 2024 agricultural season has begun for the residents of Nimo Town Development Union in Njikoka Local Government Area, Anambra State, as part of their efforts to end hunger and guarantee food sustainability and availability.
Hundreds of young men and women, even the elderly of the community, participated in the exercise, which was held at the Owa Assembly Ground, Iru Nwanyi Sabbath, under the auspices of “Nimo Food Revolution – War Against Hunger.”
The goal of the program, according to Nimo Town Development Union President-General Dan Anakpe, is to end food shortages and poverty by cultivating all of the land in Nimo, including the nearby Owa, Owe, Mkpuluata, Nkokpo, Agu Nogba, and Agu Ekpe areas.
Anakpe stated that the community had decided to resume agricultural operations in the region as they had in the past due to the country’s growing economic difficulties and the rising cost of food items.
Speaking about the boundaries of the regions to be farmed, Okeide Mbubah, Assistant National Secretary, NTDU, stated that Nimo has a sizable quantity of agricultural land that has been planned out for cultivation.
“All of the land that is available in Nimo, including the lands in Owa, Owe, Mkpuluata, Nkokpo, Agu Nogba, and Agu ekpe, will be cultivated,” said Mbubah. Considering the difficulties and rising cost of food supplies, the goal is to end hunger and guarantee large-scale food production.
Speaking next was Chuks Okonkwo, a former chairman of Nimo’s Lagos branch from Ifite Enu Nimo. He said that when his administration ended, Nimo Leaders of Thought emerged, concerned with the demands of the Nimo people to regain their lands. The season will be a good one
According to Okonkwo, Nimo has two branches of government: the political branch is headed by the President General, while the traditional branch is under the control of the traditional king.
He brought up the fact that some of the roads in the Owa region were once people’s farmlands that had been seized.
He explained, “As a result, we raised awareness among the populace about the need to remove any uncultivated land and begin planting immediately because the economy is deteriorating.
“The President-General has ordered you to go in there and do so; in other words, the Union will bear the responsibility if anything happens.” “Of course, you may have been farming on your land in the last couple of years because it is your own.”
“We have had this empty and uncultivated land for a long time and by the direction of the government, the land has been approved for farming,” stated Omile Valentine, the Nimo’s image maker, and the NTDU Publicity Secretary, as they expressed gratitude for the President General’s initiative to end hunger.
The property belonged to the indigenous people, who are from the four quarters of the Nimo Community, he claimed, thus the community rejected the monarch’s attempt to step in and begin selling the land.
Chief Maduka Egwudike of Etiti Nimo Umudiaba, who is based in Lagos, expressed his happiness at the flag-off ceremony and praised the President General’s accomplishments. He also counseled all Nimo sons and daughters to seize the chance to provide extra food by the end of this farming season.
Nevertheless, until the conclusion of the agricultural season, the community has designated Mondays and Saturdays as general farming days.
