Allocate 10% of budgets to agriculture, Buhari tells African leaders

Despite repeated promises to improve budgetary allocation, the agricultural sector has remained underfunded under Mr Buhari

on Wednesday urged African leaders to allocate 10 per cent of their national budgets to the agricultural sector in order to promote food security.

‘‘Feeding Africa is an imperative. We must ensure that we feed ourselves today, tomorrow, and well into the future,” Mr Buhari said. ‘‘As leaders, let us decisively ensure that we meet the 10 per cent allocation of our budgets to agriculture as agreed in the Malabo Declaration of the African Heads of State and Government. We must reduce the rate of rural to urban migration through the development of rural areas,’’ he said.

‘‘To feed Africa, we need younger male and female farmers. We must also ensure that they get access to land, finance, technologies, information, and markets,” he said. ‘‘I am convinced that the very targeted and bold approach of using the food and agriculture delivery compacts will allow Africa to finally break through and feed itself.

‘‘These very innovative public-private partnership models will help us to transform the agriculture sector much faster and use it to generate wealth.

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