The project manager,Watari irrigation scheme, Alhaji Mohammed Tijjani Adamu,. made this known to press on Monday on a sight seeing round the ongoing project adding that over 500 hectares of land would be added to the existing irrigation lands
He further emphasised that apart of providing 250,000 job opportunities for farmers ,no fewer that ten states in the country would also directly or indirectly benefitted from the irrigation scheme which expected to be completed by ending of this year
According to him,as at now the dam generated 700,000 cubic of water for the irrigation, however when completed by ending December of this year,it would generated over 10 million cubic water
He also disclosed that the state government would spent a sum of N314 million on various rehabilitations to be carried out across the affected lands , especially on the provision of access road network and other needed facilities that would assisted the farmers
He however disclosed that the state government embarked on the programme in collaboration with Agricultural Transformation Agenda ,to enhance irrigation activities in the affected communities
By this move ,the farmers output would increased,while the prices of their products would also be cheaper and thus would boosting availability of food stuff to the state in particular and the country in general
However,in a related development Comrade Adamu Aliyu when speaking with Journalists on the ongoing project at Magaga dam,stated that the state government embarked on the project to better the life of farmers,through technology use of farming activities