Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Sen. Aliyu Abdullahi, has disclosed the plan Federal Government is seriously pursuing to address food inflation in the country.
According to the minister, the federal government is serious about increasing food production to tackle food inflation and ensure food and nutrition security in the country.
Abdullahi stated this at the 2024 Wet Season Agricultural Performance Survey Report presentation on Friday in Abuja.
The report was provided by the National Agricultural Extension and Research Liaison Services (NAERLS)
He said that this was part of the ministry’s strategy to address the issue of food inflation in the country.
“As part of the strategy of the Ministry to tackle the food price inflation, our pledge and promise to Nigerians is that we will ramp up production back to back.
“This means as the rainy season is finishing, we are moving into the dry season and we are preparing,” he said.
He said that the Government would maximise and deploy the God- given natural assets that the country is blessed with to produce food for Nigerians.
“We are striving for higher productivity, and if we don’t know where problems are, how do we improve upon them? That explains why this performance survey is very significant and timely,” he said.
Abdullahi said that mechanisation is one agricultural practice to scale up food production.
He saluted the visionary leadership of President Bola Tinubu for his agricultural mechanisation, adding that it is the new deal and the way forward for agriculture in Nigeria.
Source: PM News
