C’River clears 72,000 hectares for rice, others

The Cross River Government has cleared 72,000 hectares of land for cultivation of rice and other crops.

The state Gov. Bassey Otu made the disclosure at a dinner for journalists, on Thursday.

He also said that the government had awarded a contract for the procurement of 108 units of three-wheel mini tractors for use by smallholder farmers across the state.

He said that the government would continue to encourage the farmers, who, he said, had been sustaining food production in the state.

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