{"id":292945,"date":"2023-10-11T15:28:29","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T14:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=292945"},"modified":"2023-10-11T15:28:29","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T14:28:29","slug":"fg-to-commence-partial-commercialization-of-dams-to-boost-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2023\/10\/11\/fg-to-commence-partial-commercialization-of-dams-to-boost-agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"FG to commence partial commercialization of Dams to boost Agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Minister disclosed this when he paid an inspection visit to Tiga Dam, built by former Governor of Kano State, Police Commissioner, Audu Baki, 50 years ago<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Federal Government is to soon commence the partial commercialisation of the River Basins across the country to enhance food production and to boost the economy.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation, Professor Joseph Utsev disclosed this when he paid an inspection visit to Tiga Dam, built by former Governor of Kano State, Police Commissioner, Audu Baki, 50 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister expressed concern over the illegal tapping of the Dams by some irrigation farmers across the multiple canals of the Tiga Dam.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cwe cannot neglect these sets of farmers because we have to fully document them and bring them into the partial commercialisation of the River Basin so that there would be full irrigation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/29\/boko-haram-suspends-farming-activities-in-yobe-community-after-residents-celebrated-killing-of-insurgents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">farming<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Utsev said the purpose of constructing the Dam is for irrigation farming, flood control and energy generation and yet, 50 years after, the Dam has not been fully utilized.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are ready to partner with commercial farmers, they will come and register with us and we will allow them to tap water from the Dam for commercial farming, which will help immensely in enhancing food production.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said one of the major challenges the Dam currently faces is illegal tapping of water by farmers and some technical challenges which will soon be attended to.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFarmers are tapping water illegally from the canals and this will have negative impact, hence we are working towards calling the attention of the farmers so that they will register with the government and the water would be supplied to them and we will also update our database for effective service delivery.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Managing Director of the Hadejia Jammaare River Basin, Ma\u2019Amun Dau Aliyu, explained that over three million farmers are benefiting from the Tiga Dam while hundreds of others are syphoning the water illegally.<\/p>\n<p>He said the management has since commenced moves to register all those who operate illegally so that the federal government\u2019s mission of commercialising the water would be quickly achieved.<\/p>\n<p>Dau Aliyu explained that the Dam, built 50 years ago, was constructed on 1.4 billion cubic water capacity and was done for some five million combined Kano, Jigawa population then but still has not been fully utilised.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Tiga Dam has canals and small dams that link to Lake Chad through the Kamadugu River Basin in Yobe State, adding that with the commercialisation, more economic input would be recorded from the Dam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister disclosed this when he paid an inspection visit to Tiga Dam, built by former Governor of Kano State, Police Commissioner, Audu Baki, 50 years ago The Federal Government is to soon commence the partial commercialisation of the River Basins across the country to enhance food production and to boost the economy. 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