From ISMA’ILA MUHAMMAD,Dutse

Investigations conducted by our reporter revealed that the farmers are complaining over poor arrangement of sales and collection of the approved N900 per bag by government officials assigned and alleged show of negative attitudes which contradict government’s policy on the commodity.
Least among includes favouring certain categories of government officials to the detriment of the peasant farmers,diversion of the product among others.
It gathered that these same monopoly generated fracas to some extent, thereby causing untold hardship to the farmers in getting access to the commodity, situation which contravenes the state government’s policy that the sales of this year’s fertlizer should be free for all without any discrimination.
For example, Ali Taura (a large scale farmer) had informed our reporter that: ‘’how can a large farmer who requires at least five to 20 tonnes of fertilizer be supplied with less than a tonne of the said commodity?”,asking, “what do I do with such a meagre quantity?”.
Taura who faulted the state government’s distribution system of the commodity, blamed poor allocation of the commodity to a trailer of less than five tonnes to over 10,000 farmers as grossly inadequate, compared to the state’s symbolic nature of being agrian.
According to him, government should reinvigorate its fertilizer system of procurement, sales and distribution to allow peasant farmers get access to the commodity through the involvement of farmers cooperative societies, community leaders, representatives of the traditional institutions, the Ulama, among others, saying, “let government involve them in the system in the interest of justice and fairplay”.