The Yobe state governor, His excellency, Honourable Mai Mala Buni, in his efforts to combat desertification and deforestation in the state has instructed ministry of environment to raise and plant 3 million assorted seedlings.

Desertification in the state is a major environmental and livelihood challenge driven by climatic variability, and human activities, such as deforestation and high reliance on firewood for cooking. Arable land turns arid and forage for cattle becomes increasingly scarce affecting the livelihood of both farmers and pastoralists.

It further compounds socioeconomic inequalities, the impact of climate change and the intensity of weather events, including sand storms and heatwaves.

Today, June 17, 2020, we visited one of the nurseries in Damaturu where 800,000 seedlings are going to be raised. The nursery is satisfactorily ongoing, it has a borehole and water reservoirs for effective irrigation.

Other nurseries include: Bayamari Nursery bedding 400,000, Gaidam 600,000, Gashua 600,000, Nguru 600,000 seedlings total of 3,000,000 seedlings. After raising the seedlings is going to be planted across the 17 local government of the state.

Yobe state commissioner, ministry of environment, Honourable Sidi Yakubu Karasuwa has intensified monitoring and supervision on daily basis to ensure compliance of workers to adequately care for the seedlings. Honourable Karasuwa implored to workers to do their respective duties diligently in order to achieve the desired objective.

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