HEDA Resource Center, Sensitize Farmers On Flood & Risk Management In Adamawa Communities

HEDA Resource Center, sensitize farmers on flood & risk management in Adamawa Communities.

From Umar Dankano, Yola.

A Non governmental organization under the aupieces ‘Human and Environmental Development Agenda, HEDA has urged

farmers and people living in flood prone locations to heed to the warnings on issues concerning climate change from the Nigerian Meteorological Agency  (NIMET) and other relevant agencies.

Executive Secretary of the Organisation, (HEDA).Mr.Sulaimon Arigbabu made the disclosure during a awareness and sensitization campaign on the effects of the climate change and in communities of Demsa and Yola-South local councils in Adamawa state.

Arigbabu stressed that, this project is packaged for flood awareness and sensitization outreach to climate frontline communities under the African Activists for climate justice projects in partnership with OXFAM  being funded by the Ministry of foreign affairs of the Netherlands.

He also noted Adamawa is blessed with fatal agrarian land with committed farmers that need few support from the authorities to harness their potentials and by extension feed the state and the Northeast in general.

During the interactive sessions with the  farmers in Zurang, Mbamba and Yolde-pate communities, weekend,  HEDA’s team leader, Arigbabu explained that, the essence of the meeting was to educate and create awareness to those living in the flood prone areas to embrace the use of drought and flood resistance seeds as a major of mitigating their losses.

In Zurang community of Demsa local government area where floodwaters has already destroyed a substantially number of farm lands, HEDA resource centre engaged the farmers on methodologies to be adopted to minimize losses.

The centre also advocated the need for farmers to always be on alert with the details on climate change being provided by the officials of agencies handling climate change and related stuff before planting their crops at raining or dry seasons accordingly.

Most of the farmers expressed their readiness to implementing lessons garnered at the sensitization drive also appealed to authorities to come to their aid especially in the provision of farming inputs and water pumps for irrigation.

Farmers like Mrs. Lakammi Yakubu of Yolde-pate in Yola South council and Mr.

Yakubu Borough of Zurang in Demsa council expressed gratitude to the Centre and its partners for the timely interface on the flood and modernized farming techniques.

They both pledged to communicate the take aways from the engagement to their larger members of their communities for adherence with a view to safeguard their farming activities appealing for more support to boost their food production

“We plead for assistance in areas of farming implements such as water pumps, Generators and drilling of boreholes for irrigation farming so that it increases our yields”.They solicited.

Human and environmental development Agenda, resource centre (HEDA) is a nonprofit organization promoting a sustainable environment  through research, training, advocacy and policy engagement.