Niger to Declare 2018 Year of Agricultural Revolution |
Bello said the
declaration is aimed at repositioning the economic base of the state,
increase its internally generated revenue, create job opportunities for
youths and drastically reduce state dependence on the monthly allocation
from the federation account allocation.
The governor made
the policy known when he received the leadership of the state chapter of
the Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN) at the Government House
Minna on Monday.
To achieve the
objective, the governor said a broad-based committee of all stakeholders
in the agricultural sector, including farmers, financial institutions,
research centres, agrochemical entrepreneurs and technocrats would be
constituted and inaugurated for the actualisation of the scheme.
"We are declaring
2018 year of Agriculture Revolution. The state is blessed with vast
arable land for farming of different crops. We equally have large water
bodies for aquatic farming and for irrigation. We have fertile land and
the capacity to grow many food items from rice, yam, sugarcane, maize,
cotton, Shea nuts, groundnuts, sorghum and many other farm produce," he
said.
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