The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh said the Federal Government has already mapped
out plans to support dry-season farming that would discourage the presumed food
shortage.
He stated that about 10 dams would be constructed in States
to support farm irrigation system. He also stated that Nigeria has 33 silo
sites with capacity to store about 2 million tons of grains.
In his words “The threat of famine, I think that is a bit of
an exaggeration. No danger of famine now. We are doing far better than we did a
decade ago. Our neighbours in the West, North and Central Africa are buying, they
have always bought, people are buying and storing and this is a challenge I am
happy about as it says to the farmer, there is a market for your produce."
"We are not going to face famine, the Government will
make sure it doesn’t happen. The GES scheme is working.”
No comments:
Post a Comment