Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief
Audu Ogbeh, has called on state governors in the country to emulate Kano State
in its efforts at boosting agriculture, food security and providing jobs for
jobless citizens.
Speaking in Kano during his tour of agricultural
projects supported by Kano State government, the Minister said “Nigeria has to
feed her citizens and other countries. There is a request for 37,000 metric
tons of maize at N4.2 billion by Namibia.
Food business
is now the biggest in Nigeria. It is time for the farmers to be legitimately
rich.” Ogbeh accompanied by Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, commissioned 1,000
boreholes across 24 local government areas of Kano State, as part of initiatives
by the state to encourage farmers to produce more wheat under its commercial
agriculture programme.
Commissioning
the boreholes at Alkamawa in Bunkure local government area, Chief Ogbeh said “I
am personally excited by what I have seen here. I think the revolution in
agriculture has started, and I am looking forward for the day when Nigeria will
begin selling wheat and not importing wheat.”
On his part, Governor Ganduje said his
administration was determined to ensure farming was all year round, pointing
out that this prompted the government to drill 1,000 boreholes under a
programme tagged “Drive Away Dry Season”.
“The state’s agricultural policy provide necessary
impetus aimed at facilitating increased agricultural output and employment
generation to the teeming populace under the newly introduced concept of
developing commercial agriculture”, the governor maintained.
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