The SAID project is one of the third-party projects which piloted the technology in Ebonyi and Enugu States.
Mr Zuntu stated that the price of tomatoes would gradually decline due to increased supply ahead of festivities.
Mr Ahmed said Nigeria lost more than ₦700 billion to flood-related crop damage in the past five years.
“As an agrarian state, our policies and actions must reflect our agricultural identity,” the official said.
He stressed that beneficiaries were not required to pay any fee to access the intervention.
He said the intervention had stimulated extensive agricultural transformation.
Mr Kofar-Mata said the pumps would reduce production costs during dry-season farming and increase farmers’ profitability.
She said that the baseline study would serve as the foundation for tracking performance from 2025 to 2035.
The state government had cultivated 3,300 hectares of rice from the 10,000 hectares acquired for the rice project in the area.
The foundation also called for urgent government and community action to restore degraded forests.
