Reps candidate, Nwachukwu, To Prioritize Special Intervention For Farmers In Agrarian Communities
—– Celebrate Nteje, Awkuzu communities on New Yam Festival
The Zenith Labour Party(ZLP) candidate for Oyi/Ayamelum federal constituency in 2023 general elections, Dr. Amaechi Nwachukwu has vowed to prioritize bill that will grant farmers in agrarian communities a subsidized access to fertilizer to improve their farming outputs if elected to represent the good people of the federal constituency in 2023 elections.
The Medical Director Princeton Specialist Hospital and Orthopaedic Center, Awka, maintained that his representation will focus on the narratives critical for unleashing job creation potentials of the agricultural sector in the federal constituency.
Dr. Nwachukwu made the pledge on Sunday, while addressing a mammoth crowd that conglomerated at the palatial residence of High-Chief Mike Nwakalor Nteje and Awkuzu communities to mark 2022 New Yam Festival Celebration in their areas.
He decried the sufferings of the people especially farmers in agrarian communities who, he said, engaged in laborious task of farming to feed the nation without adequate care and support from the government.
The ZLP House of Representatives’ candidate made it known that once he is elected to represent his people at the Green Chamber, he would ensure that the farmers receive the grants and support they lacked to be encouraged in their farming activities to reduce hardship and ensure food security.
In his words, “One of the things in my manifesto is to ensure that there will be steady supply of fertilizer to all the agrarian society both in my federal constituency and nation-wide during planting seasons.
“Oyi/Ayaemelum is an agrarian federal constituency. When I get to Abuja as a lawmaker, one of the motions I will move is to ensure that specific grants are given to all agrarian communities.
“There is need for the people of this area to have highly subsidized fertilizer supply, that is, if they cannot give it free of charge. Some people are the food basket of the nation and when such input as fertilizer is given to them at subsidized rates or free, they would produce more foods for the people.
“Fertilizer is very essential because when the farmers are well supported, they produce more and people are well fed. It would equally minimize crime and criminality in the society.”
Speaking on the new yam festival celebration, Dr. Nwachukwu, a Chief Consultant at Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital, Awka, said it is a feast that is used to thank God for bountiful harvest in Igbo land.
According to him, “Biblically, the Israelites have their planting and harvest seasons. Our culture is close to that of Israelites. If there is no harvest, people will go hungry. That is why we thank God annually for giving us new yam after periods of labour,” Dr. Nwachukwu concluded.
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