The federal government has disclosed plans to increase the amount of land available for farming on vacant acres of postsecondary educational institutions in an effort to increase the nation’s food supply.
This was said by Senator Abubakar Kyari, Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, at the Seventh-Day Adventist Church’s Centennial Public Lecture and Food Summit on Friday in Port Harcourt. The theme of the event was “Ending Food Shortage in Nigeria, How to Apply The Surplus Concept.”
Nuhu Kilishi, the ministry’s deputy director for nutrition and food safety, spoke on behalf of Kyari, who stated that letters asking for the institutions’ permission had already been submitted.
Prior to this, the event’s keynote speaker, Cyril Nwamguruka, a professor of plant breeding and genetics at Babcock University, named selfishness as the main cause of the nation’s food scarcity.
Nwamguruka urged President Bola Tinubu to fill public office with only selfless and devoted people.
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