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*Promises farmers' training
The Nigerian Government has stepped up her seeds productivity system as she launched a portal in order to track and protect the quality of all released seeds varieties with breeders' protection regulation just as farmers were promised of better training in the use of the new technologies.
The excitement is building up as stakeholders in the agricultural sector from across Nigeria are already arriving at the exhibition ground, gearing up for the highly anticipated Agric Show 2024.
As effort towards zero hunger for the year 2030 is facing challenges in about five years to go, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO) representative to Nigeria, Mr. Kofi Dominick has alerted that stakeholders must show more concerns to achieve the targets, just as he pointed out the 33 million Nigerians being affected by food deficit as a result of rising prices.
Nigeria’s fish import bill stands at a staggering $1.2 billion annually, a situation exacerbated by a 2.5 million-tons deficit in local fish production by ActionAid Nigeria.
The office of Agricultural Transformation Agenda Support Program Phase 1 ( ATASP-1) has released 2, 500 metric of improved wheat seed variety to support the expansion of the produce in Nigeria.
Our crave to be a food secured nation will be in vain except will passionately deplore the value chains Agricutural model into driving the sector in an holistic manner for every economic crops and livestock productivity.
Cross River State is set to launch a cereal grain productivity leveraging on fertile soil with favourable climate conditions, said, Agric Commissioner, Mr. Johnson Ebokpo.
The Federal Government ( FG) in partnership with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has officially inaugurated a state-of-the-art 20 million fish hatchery in Cross River State, Nigeria.
The Minister of Innovation, Science, and Technology, Chief Uche Nnaji has reiterated the government’s commitment to leveraging science and technology to enhance food security.
