The Federal Government has admitted there is food insecurity in the country but assured Nigerians that the situation is being addressed and the prices of commodities will soon come down.
The federal government of Nigeria true to their words are working to remove food insecurity in the country. The have assured all the citizens that the situation is currently been addressed.
According to the National Bureau of statistics (NBS) , food inflation has taken 40 per cent of the statistics in the months that have passed. It has really pushed the price of commodities to a higher reach for the poor masses.
Aliyu Abdullahi who is the minister of State for Agriculture said in an interview that the federal government are into many programmes that will help mitigate the situation soon enough.
“You will see a lot of programmes trying to dampen [reduce prices] the situation,” he said
“Agriculture has a time frame. Now, a lot of production is ongoing. We are in the rainy season and if you look at the fields, there is a lot of cropping going on. Those croppings are not food,” Abdullahi said.
“They will only translate to food after three months. So, until then, this story you are talking about will continue.”
The minister said the country had in the past relied more on rainy season farming.
“We realised over the past few years that we have not been taking our dry season agriculture seriously,” he said
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