The Nation Newspaper Food insecurity: Fed Govt to ban portfolio, political farmers, says minister
The Federal Government has started moves to ban “portfolios and political farmers” parading themselves as farmers ahead of this year’s farming season., announced this yesterday in Abuja at a a roundtable discussion on: The Food Price, the Forex and the Farmer, organised by the Progressive Forum to mark the 44th birthday of its leader, Ismaeel Ahmed.
The minister announced that the government was developing a strategy to direct attention to institutions with land to embark on massive production to fight food insecurity and the high cost of foodstuffs in the country. “Having analysed what we met on the ground when we came in last year, we realised it is important that we recognise the value of our smallholder farmers. But we can also do with supporting those who have massively invested in different farming operations across the country, those who need one type of support or the other from the government but have not been able to get it.
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