Stakeholders in the agricultural sector have expressed mixed reactions on Nigeria’s new policy to export yams to UK and the U.S., saying Nigeria has yet to attain self-sufficiency in yam production.
The stakeholders said in Abuja on Monday that the hardship, which most citizens were facing in purchasing yams in the market, ought to be addressed first.
They said that the export policy could be counter-productive if no tangible efforts were made to boost yam production across the country.
Dr Tunde Arosanyin, National Coordinator for Zero Hunger Commodities, who commended the Federal Government for the new initiative, however, said that a lot needed to be done to increase food production in the country.
“Ordinarily, the exportation of food items to Europe or America is a welcome development but there are mixed feelings on the policy in the sense that people are presently…
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