Agric Minister: FG Spends 20bilion dollars on Food Importation

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Agric Minister: FG Spends 20bilion dollars on Food Importation

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, has today said the Nigerian government had no money to import food and that no nation can be able to feed its rapidly increasing population with 9 percent interest rate in agriculture.

The minister, while addressing delegates to the 41st Technical meeting of the National Council on Agriculture and Rural Development in Kano, said agriculture being an integral part of human development had been receiving top priority all over the globe with Europe and America considerably subsidising it.
He said the Muhammadu Buhari administration will take some steps in restoring the lost glory of agriculture which had played a pivotal role in  developing human potentials to meet the ever increasing demands of self sufficiency in food production adding that with depleted foreign reserve it would not be realistic for the country to rely solely on massive importation of food
He said Africans had been habitually disinclined to adopt a long strategic plan in facing any eventually almost in all spheres of human endeavour pointing out that agriculture being the main stay of any promising developing economy  must be accorded the priority it deserved as a way of reducing the nation's over dependence of oil.
He however that his ministry was ready to enter into partnership with prominent industrial agriculturalists and small scale farmers for the purpose of lending credence to the sector appreciably stressing affirming that it is  was also determined to give out credit to women farmers to access markets for their products to be exposed and sold on a  larger scale.
The minister of agriculture maintained that the issue of the lingering Fulani herdsmen and farmers clash had for long been a disturbing trend to the federal government saying proactive steps would be taken to limit the scope of the Fulani herdsmen grazing lands to avoid the encroachment that may lead to a deadly conflict.

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