The Federal Government has reiterated its commitment to ensure food security in the country through job creation and poverty reduction.
Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Sen. Abubakar Kyari, stated this when Gov. Dikko Radda of Katsina State paid him a courtesy call on Tuesday, January 9, 2024, in Abuja.
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He said that Katsina State remained one of the frontline states in the quest to achieve President Bola Tinubu’s food security agenda through the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security.
Kyari said that the ministry was also committed to achieving the Federal Government’s plan to cultivate 500,000 hectares of arable lands to ensure food security.
“Like I mentioned before, we have to collaborate with the states and local governments to come up with a genuine and verifiable farmers list.
“This is very important because we have to know who the real farmers are, and by so doing we have to collaborate with the local authorities. This is so they can buy into our programmes, and so we can succeed in what we set out to do,” he said.
Earlier, Gov. Radda disclosed that insecurity affecting food production and security of lives and property had been reduced by 70 per cent in Katsina.
Radda said that without adequately tackling insecurity, there couldn’t be food production due to the activities of criminal elements in the state.
He said that these criminal elements had previously made it very tough for farmers to access their farms.
