President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday in Abuja urged Nigerians to do
more than pay mere lip service to agriculture, as crude oil and gas
exports will no longer be sufficient as the country’s major revenue
earner.
President Buhari made the declaration at an audience with Dr. Kanayo
Nwanze, the Nigerian born President of the International Fund for
Agricultural Development (IFAD), at the Presidential Villa.
“It’s time to go back to the land. We must face the reality that the
petroleum we had depended on for so long will no longer suffice. We
campaigned heavily on agriculture, and we are ready to assist as many as
want to go into agricultural ventures,” the President said.
The President pledged that his administration will also cut short the
long bureaucratic processes that Nigerian farmers had to go through to
get any form of assistance from government.
He told the IFAD President that improvement of the productivity of
farmers, dry season farming, and creative ways to combat the shrinking
of the Lake Chad would also receive the attention of his administration.
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