Sen. Abdullahi Adamu, Chairman, Senate Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, says that only 40 per cent of Nigeria’s arable land is under cultivation.
Adamu, who said this in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja, called for increased investments in agriculture, as the situation had elicited serious concern.
He said that one good thing that the recent economic recession had done to Nigeria was that people from all walks of life were now going into agriculture.
On some reports that foreigners had taken over farming in the country, the senator said that the Nigerian economy was a free and open economy.
“We need large-scale farming to increase our agricultural output if we are talking about food security.
“Yes, we have been fed by peasant farmers, smallholder farmers in this country for quite a long time,’’ he…
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