This assertion was made by the state governor Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje during the opening ceremony of the National Business Summit /Exhibition organized by Daily Trust in Partnership with Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission today in Kano state.


The governor who was represented at the summit by the commissioner of Information , Mallam Muhammad Garba said that Kano has since taken a bold step towards revitalizing the state agricultural sector through embarking on various projects, programmes, supports and trainings to farmers and specialists that will assist the state  in boosting the sector.

According to him, the government has succeeded in rehabilitating KASCO, the state fertilizer processing plant for optimum fertilizer production, rehabilitate the Kadawa and Dambatta insemination centres and training of  60 youth as inseminators in Turkey, employment of  700 Agric extension officers and providing them with motorcycles, provision of water pump for fadama farmers as well as sinking of over 1000 boreholes for the ” A Kori Rani” programme across the state among other things.

The commissioner said that agriculture is the only answer in rescuing  the Nigerian economy  especially at this critical period that, where  oil revenue is no longer reliable.

He pointed out that Kano state government is ever ready to collaborate with stakeholders in the Agric and solid mineral sector so as to learn and adopt new ways that Will  move the sector forward.

While describing the Theme of the summit “unlocking the Agric and Solid Mineral Sectors for Quick-win Development in the North West Zone “as timely because it will provide more needed information to the North West and  Kano in particular on how to harness its multiple untapped solid mineral resources, Mallam Garba commended the organizers for a job well done , hoping that the tempo will be sustained.