Jack-Rich Tein Aid Foundation and BELEMA Aid Foundation have launched N12 billion agricultural mechanisation support scheme targeting one million farmers across Nigeria.
President and Founder of the two foundations, Mr Tein Jack-Rich, who performed the launch in Sokoto said the four-year duration scheme was to boost commercial agriculture in the country, adding that the foundations would construct 100-bed capacity students hostel at the Usmanu Danfodio University (UDUS) Sokoto, which will contribute to both education and human development in the society.
According to NAN, Jack-Rich had earlier presented N300 million cheque to the Sultan of Sokoto for farmers in the 19 northern states and FCT-Abuja, saying the money should be distributed to 10, 000 in each of the 19 northern states that would use it better the lot of grassroots farmers.
He said that the effort was aimed at assisting Nigerians toward reducing the poverty level, enhance their living standard as well as income generation which surely would impacted on the nation’s economy.
“If we support education and agriculture, it is a clear way of making the people to feed and open windows for others. It does not mean that we have so much, but just that we are trying to be thankful to God for giving us wealth”, he said.
