Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Bank of Agriculture, Ayo Sotinrin
The Bank of Agriculture has launched the 2026 wet season input disbursement under the Smallholder Farmer Input Support Programme in Katsina State, with plans to support cultivation across about 10,000 hectares through more than 1,000 farmer cooperatives.
The programme, implemented in partnership with the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, is aimed at expanding smallholder farmers’ access to affordable agricultural inputs while modernising agricultural delivery systems.
According to a statement signed by BOA and issued on Friday, participating farmers will each receive four bags of NPK fertiliser and two bags of urea, while about 150 farmers attended the Katsina flag-off as representative beneficiaries ahead of the nationwide disbursement.
The statement said the intervention would be delivered through the bank’s agricultural delivery framework in collaboration with the Nigeria Agribusiness Group, the umbrella body for the Farmer Aggregation Companies.
