- Kogi has installed 21 solar boreholes and 50 solar-powered street lights across the Senatorial District.
- The administration provided 303 clean cooking stoves to women in the Western Senatorial to mitigate over-reliance on firewood.
The Kogi State Government has started planting 17,166 trees and promoting climate-smart agriculture in the state’s three Senatorial districts. The tree planting project commenced through the State Agro-Climatic Resilience in Semi-Arid Landscapes (ACReSAL). The Project Coordinator of ACReSAL, Ladi Ahmed Jatto, disclosed this at the flag-off ceremony in Kabba, Kabba Bunu Local Government Area of Kogi State.
She said the project aims to restore 600 hectares of land. It will also support 150 farmers with improved maize seedlings for the dry season in Kabba. She described landscape management as essential to agriculture, adding that the ACRESAL project in the state has started yielding dividends under Governor Yahaya Bello’s led administration.
To mitigate the over-reliance on firewood and stop the further release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, the state government has provided 303 clean cooking stoves to women in the Western Senatorial District of the state. One hundred women in Kabba Bunu are part of the beneficiaries.
The administration has also installed 21 solar-powered boreholes and street lights in some communities, seven in the Western Senatorial District, with 50 solar-powered street lights across the Senatorial District. According to Jatto, the installation is geared towards reducing women’s suffering in searching for clean water and relying on boreholes powered by fossil generators.