The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC says it has concluded arrangements to deploy additional one thousand, five hundred personnel under its Agro-Ranger scheme to farmlands this cropping season to provide security for farmers. The Corps’ Commandant-General, Abdullahi Muhammadumade this known in Maiduguri, Borno state. According to Muhammadu, the measure is to protect farmers against incessant attacks by bandits and kidnappers to enable them cultivate their farmlands. He said that the deployment would also mobilise farmers and build their confidence to enable them carry out their activities without fear. Read Related News: Eid-El-Fitr Celebration: Police, NSCDC Deploy Personnel To Ensure Peace In Kano, Borno, Others Muhammadu explained that about seventy hundred andfifty personnel would undergo five-week training before deployment to the eightbandits’ prone areas in Katsina State. He said that the personnel would be exposed totechniques for internal security, map reading, tactics, first aid and field craftas well as Improvised Explosive Device detection and demobilisation.