The farm inputs distributed by the lawmaker include plantain suckers, pepper, tomatoes, maize seedlings and cassava stems
Speaking at the event on Wednesday in Asaba, Anyafulu said the initiative was geared towards ensuring people learn to cultivate, grow whatever they eat and ensure food security.
“I am a farmer and an African woman. We should learn how to cultivate and grow whatever we eat, whether rice, yam, cassava, maize, tomatoes, pepper, vegetables, among others.
“The food we eat is medicine to our body and it is important that we grow these crops in our lands, ” she said.
According to her, when people eat fresh foods, especially those grown in their own gardens, they hardly fall sick, except they expose their body to mosquito bites.
“’This is what we are trying to inculcate in the lives of our children and to also let them know that they have the capacity to fight hunger in Nigeria.
“In no distance time, we won’t have any child who will go to school without food in his or her stomach.
“When they learn to cultivate and plant crops annually, they will have enough food to eat and sell to people at the markets as well as reach out to the less privileged in the society.”
“So, it is important that we bring back those values that our parents and teachers inculcated in us.
“As a child even in primary school, you can plant pepper, tomatoes, maize and other crops that our mothers use in preparing our food at home,” she said.
She advised pupils, students and teachers to embrace school and home gardens in order to have enough food as well as check the continuous increase in the prices of foodstuffs.
Responding on behalf of the students, Miss Chukwufumnanya Obi, the Head Girl of Isioma Onyeobi College, Asaba, said: “We want to thank you for distributing the farm inputs to us.
“We want to also thank you for the time you spent inculcating in us the knowledge about agricultural activities and we pray that God will reward you for your kind gestures,” Obi said.
She promised, on behalf of the students, to take up the farming activities she had taught
