Despite efforts by Government Food Security Agencies and the United Nations Food Agriculture Organization (FAO) as a Cluster Lead Agency in making efforts to advocate for increase in access in fertilizer amidst the restrictions, several partners still reported challenges in procurement and distribution of fertilizer across Borno, Adamawa and Yobe States over the past three years.  

In February 2021, the Food Security Sector sent out an online survey to partners who take part in provision of fertilizer support as part of the agricultural livelihoods support for the main crop season, to understand the challenges they face and how they can be mitigated or solved, as regards fertilizer procurement and distribution. The survey focused on the 2020 rain season farming 

Findings 

State Government actors (Borno, Adamawa and Yobe), INGOs (03), National NGOs (03) and UN agencies (01) provided feedback to the survey providing fertilizer assistance in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe.
For the 2020 rain season, partners provided organic, wet-blended, granular and liquid fertilizer. Only one lead agency was able to avail wet-blended fertilizer to their partners. All three state governments were able to distribute granular fertilizer.  

For the 2020 rain season, partners reported to have distributed about 13,000 Metric Tonnes of Granular fertilizer, 1,300 Metric Tonnes of wet-blended fertilizer. Partners who reported also mentioned distributing about 2,000 litres (2 MT) of liquid fertilizer and 20 MT for organic solid fertilizer.