The recently signed Oronsanye rationalization and merger report by President Tinubu for implementation has no doubt been very timely in view of wastages and duplications of functions with many agencies performing just one function.
The recently signed Oronsanye rationalization and merger report by President Tinubu for implementation has no doubt been very timely in view of wastages and duplications of functions with many agencies performing just one function.
The Minister of Aviation and Eurospace Development, Mr. Festus Keyamu, Senior Advocate of Nigeria ( SAN) while unveiling 2024 Seasonal Climate Predictions ( SCP) said that lovers of yam should expect late harvest of the crop, and this also implies many other produce in the region will be affected as well except if our farmers are well educated about climate smart farmings with constant relevant information on what to do to overcome low amount of rainfall requirements to crops as compared to the previous years.
The practice of farming being seen as culture instead of business is what we are looking at in this edition.
Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO) of the United Nations ( UN) is very particular about food security around the globe.
Day by day, the attention food security situation of the country is receiving has called for the need why farmer Associations must put their house in order.
No doubt by all global standard, our expenditure may have seemed far below 10 percent of our annual total budget to Agriculture as being stipulated in Mabuto/Malabo declaration by African Head of States in 2014.
The farming situation in the country has been threatened to an extent that 60-70% of crops and livestock producers have abandoned their activities for the safety of their lives elsewhere.
Local Government councils in Nigeria is the third tier of executive Government which are not allowed to be financially autonomous to the point of being able to carry out their statutory responsibilities towards social economic activities’ development through infrastructural provisions at their own levels to eradicate poverty.
We must commend the effort of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development for being able to host the 45TH meeting of the National Council on Agriculture and Rural Development (NCARD) in partnership with Plateau state government through its agriculture ministry.
The food prices unstoppable increase have become a thing of great concern to us and many other Nigerians despite all the financial effort going to billions of naira being expended on the sector alone to make a better food secured nation. All have been to no avail at this most critical time with the recently released statistical figures of some food items by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) which revealed the scenario in more pathetic way that has generated our concern for what needs to be done.
No doubt the
existence of our colleges of Agriculture in Moorplantation, Ibadan and Samaru,
Zaria actually may have called for celebration considering the numbers of
their years in establishments coupled the grandaunts they have chunked out over
the period.
The president’s speech of October 1, 2021 to Nigerians as we celebrate Independence Day has different meanings to different people. But the most captivating among the clauses to us are the ones that border on the agricultural sector in view of food security matters that have never been much available, affordable, and accessible to most Nigerians as many still go to sleep with empty stomachs and hunger.
It is no more news to say agricultural research Institutes are poorly funded with only 30% of the total budget annually going into pure research while the rest seventy percent are given to administration, thereby making the core mandate of most of these institutes not very effective as they supposed to have been.