By Sumaila Ogbaje
The Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Sen. Abubakar Kyari, says Nigeria requires about 312,000 metric tons of seed towards achieving food security, food sufficiency and global security in 2024.
Kyari said this at a High-Level Stakeholders’ Forum on Seed System Development, organised by Feed-the Future Nigeria Integrated Agriculture Activity, on Tuesday in Abuja.
The minister was represented by Dr Haruna Suleman, the Director, National Food and Strategic Reserve.
The theme of the forum is, “ Enhancing Seed Systems Development for Improved Food Security: A Paradigm of USAID Interventions in Northeast Nigeria’’.
Kyari said the ministry had outlined series of critical pathways to solve the food security challenges in Nigeria.
He explained that the pathways were streamlined into short, medium and long term for a period of four years, which includes the immediate production of 31 million metric tons of grain in 2024.
According to him, for success…
Source: News Agency of Nigeria
