United MiddleBelt Development Forum
The United MiddleBelt Development Forum is a non-profit organization organized in the United States, by American and Canadian citizens from the geographical middle section of the country of Nigeria. The MiddleBelt comprises Adamawa, Taraba, Bauchi, Plateau, Benue, Nasarawa, Kogi, Niger, Kaduna states and the Abuja Federal Capital Territory.
Historical Background
The MiddleBelt for thousands of years has been inhabited by people who spoke diverse languages. And what united them the most was and continues to be agriculture. To this day, most of them own and farm small portions of land, just enough to sustain their families. Farming is still subsistent and not adequate for higher yields that in turn will support their families with extra to sell in the market. Farmers in this part of the world perform most chores by using tilling equipment that takes so many days to cultivate small portions of land. Some however, are able to afford tractors that will help with cultivation. Nevertheless, for the majority of famers it takes so much effort to farm and sustain their wives and children.
The need to improve the lot of famers in the MiddleBelt
Because of the aforementioned in the last paragraph, we the citizens of the United States and Canada from the MiddleBelt of Nigeria, find it incumbent upon us to look for resources from private as well as governmental agencies, to reduce the perennial hardship which people in the MiddleBelt have endured. Back in the MiddleBelt, we have contacts that have urged us to help with farmers. These are intelligent hard working people who need help to improve their farming abilities and by doing so improve yearly harvests, feed better and expand and increase better opportunities for their families. The Forum seeks in addition assisting farmers to improve their current crop yields, to introduce new commercially viable crops. Commercial crops such as hibiscus flowers increase farmers' cash flow more than some traditional crops. The more money they are able to generate, the better their lives will change, including children's education.