Kyari Commits to Agricultural Devt, Targets Food Exports

Gilbert Ekugbe

 The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (FMAFS), has reaffirmed its commitment in driving the development of Nigeria’s agricultural sector as one the surest ways to diversify the nation’s economy away from oil.

 The Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Sen. Abubakar Kyari, expressed this view on his assumption of duty at the FMAFS’s Headquters inAbuja.

Kyari said that his objectives are to ensure domestic food security and food export by surmounting challenges like flooding and insecurity that have kept Nigeria to be struggling with hunger.  

He said: “We know the challenge that we face now, hunger is one of the biggest problems that we have in this country. When we say hunger, it also means food and there are challenges to food security, insecurity is one of them, flooding is another, and there are other issues.”

Also speaking, the Governor of Borno State, Professor Babagana Zulum, emphasised the importance of developing a comprehensive and enduring strategy to tackle food insecurity in Nigeria.

Zulum highlighted that the viable option for the country is to allocate resources towards commercial agriculture and embrace innovative agricultural practices like irrigation, green technology, and more.