Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje |
Speaking during the flag-off of the 2015 dry season wheat and rice farming in Kura, Kano State, on Tuesday 24th,
2015, the Executive Governor of Kano State, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje
said that agriculture should now be treated as a business, and not just a
means for managing poverty.
“We urgently need an approach
to improve agricultural production, with sound agricultural policies to
back it up,” he said, promising to help farmers improve productivity,
and adding that the state is trying to transform agriculture into viable
economic activities.
He also announced that the
state’s wheat farming programme has registered 18,200 farmers as part of
the attention given to it by the government.
Minister of Agriculture and
Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, during the event decried the huge
sum of money spent on food importation, faulting the N1.3 trillion
annually expended on the importation of assorted food commodities into
the country.
Dr. Gbenga Olabanji, Executive
Director of Lake Chad Research Institute (LCRI) having the national
mandate for the genetic development of wheat, noted that Nigeria has the
potential for wheat production, and is able to produce wheat yielding 8
tons per hectare. He added that Nigeria has 600,000 hectares of land
that is good for wheat production
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