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Monday, 28 June 2021
Covid19, insecurity make silos depleted, says food/ strategic Director
The Director, Food and Strategic Reserve,
Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD), Engr. (Dr.)
Huruna Sule has said that 2020 covid-19 pandemic disease, insecurity, and climate
change challenges across the six geo- political zones of the federation have made
the nation’s concessional silos depleted as intervention
releases of grains were given to front-line states, poultry association and
Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Federal Government (FG).
Engr. Sule
stated this in his office last week Wednesday in an exclusive chat with Food Farm News.
Engr. Sule pointed that all the effort of the
FG through the FMARD to ensure bumper harvest for the past years were thwarted
by the sudden appearances of 2020 covid-19 pandemic disease and insecurity
challenges resulting to many farmers being killed and others displaced from
rural cultivations, coupled with negative
impact of flood and drought joined together to make food storage impossible,
saying there were no surpluses to be mopped into the silos already handed over
to private organizations for proactive management to ensuring food security in
time of scarcity.
He commended the untiring effort of President Muhamudu
Buhari towards ensuring that agriculture is repositioned to create job and wealth
to people, saying the challenges facing the sector have been well discussed
with appropriate approved actionable memoranda at the recently concluded 44th
National Council on Agriculture and Rural Development (NCARD), which is the
apex decision taking body on agricultural policies under the chairmanship, the
minister of agriculture, Alhaji Sabo Nanono.
He said‘’ all the silos concession to private
organizations are now depleted due to covid-19 and insecurity that prevented
planting and harvesting that should have ensured mopping during plenty to store
for release during scarcity. All this could not happen due to covid-19 and
insecurity of 2020 and 2021 respectively’’
He said government was able to release 70,000 metric tons of grains to mitigate food scarcity for people last year to cushion effect
of covid 19 impact saying that ‘’ last year we are able to release 70,000 metric tons of
grains from the reserve to mitigate food challenges in the country, and we are
still prepared to do such as long as farmers are allowed to farm in various
states of the federation towards storing the excesses from being wasted due to
gluts’’
‘’ The NCARD meeting has exhaustively
discussed challenges of food insecurity in the country with a resolutions
through appropriate memos to that effect that were all approved by the council
chairman in person of Minister, Alhaji Sabo Nanono and his members towards
proffering solution to food challenges in the country. All the memoranda have
received critical unbiased criticisms at the technical level being headed by
the FMARD Permanent Secretary (PS) with all the states PSs with other
stakeholders from both the public and private sectors before they are being
presented to the national council members for approval. And because of the
peculiarity of the food challenges in the country and the need for urgent
solutions, all the memoranda were all approved’’ said Engr. Sule.
The director however called the states
government to embark on internal generation of security using the youths (like
in Niger state where the youths are already taking their destiny in their hands)
to mobilize against banditry, kidnapping and insurgency for farming activities
to be reinstated at the rural areas, saying this is what would bring back surplus
agricultural produce for harvesting and thereby ensured mopping of the
excesses back into the silos for reservation against distressed times.
He however enjoined Food Farm News to ensure talking to the Federal Department of
Agriculture (FDA), Rural and Land departments of the FMARD for more detailed
actions that would be taken by the government in terms of policies towards ensuring
food security in the country through the ministry and henceforth leading to
storing excesses against wastages.
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