Agriculture Remains A Viable Means For Employment Creation – Lawan
A file photo of the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, during plenary at the upper chamber of the National Assembly in Abuja.The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, says agriculture remains a viable means for employment creation in Nigeria.
“The agricultural sector remains unarguably the most viable means of ensuring that we create employment opportunities and that we create wealth for our people as well. Earlier, sponsor of the bill, Senator Abdullahi Adamu , leading debate on the bill, said “the current contribution of the agricultural sector to the nation’s Gross Domestic Product stands at 15-20 per cent with the potential for improvement through the implementation and sustenance of appropriate intervention programmes, policies and enabling laws.”
The lawmaker noted, “One of the first steps that need to be taken to ensure adequate funding for the agricultural sector is the enactment of this bill in order to pave way for the creation of a mega-agency to manage viable and sustainable sources of agricultural financing.” Senator Adamu Aliero , while contributing to the debate said if passed into law, the bill would put in place the needed structure that will take care of agricultural funding in the country.
Senator Sandy Onuh said: “one of the challenges of agriculture in Nigeria is that it is predicated on subsistence.”
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