The Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, has flagged off the rehabilitation of 8,000 hectares and conversion/expansion of 5,560 hectares works of Bakolori irrigation scheme under the World Bank assisted Transforming Irrigation Management in Nigeria (TRIMING) project of the Federal Ministry of Water Resources.
Flagging off the project in Talata Mafara, Zamfara State, the Ag. President represented by the Minister of Water Resources, Engr. Suleiman H. Adamu, said that the World Bank was investing a total sum of about $495 million through the TRIMING project to improve irrigation potential of the country.
He said that five basins including Dadin Kowa in Gombe, Hadejia Valley in Jigawa, Kano River in Kano, Middle Rima in Sokoto and Bakolori in Zamfara were selected for the pilot phase.
He added that government hoped to replicate the scheme all over the country to boost the agricultural policy of the present government.
