Katsina’s 2026 wet-season rollout targets about 10,000 hectares through more than 1,000 farmer cooperatives, with disbursement already underway to aggregation companies and their networks.
Each participating farmer will receive four bags of NPK fertiliser and two bags of urea under the Smallholder Farmer Input Support Program run with the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security.
BOA said it will use farmer profiling, BVN and KYC checks, GPS farm mapping and field validation to push input loans to verified farmers quickly and transparently.
About 150 farmers attended the Katsina launch, where state officials and the local AFAN chapter said timely fertiliser access should lift planting, yields and rural incomes.
The Katsina phase follows BOA’s late-June nationwide support drive for about 500,000 farmers in more than 20 states, part of a broader plan to eventually reach 2 million farmers.