Arewa Think Tank Hails Tinubu, Agric Minister Over Drop In Food Prices

The Arewa Think Tank (ATT) has commended President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Senator Abubakar Kyari, for what it described arsenic a important simplification successful nutrient prices nationwide.

The radical attributed the improvement to the administration’s exigency involution successful the cultivation sector.

The group’s convener, Muhammad Alhaji Yakubu, stated astatine the play that the diminution successful nutrient prices indicates that President Tinubu’s nutrient information measures are opening to output tangible results.

“We privation to praise President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Senator Abubakar Kyari, for their efforts successful reducing nutrient prices successful Nigeria,” Yakubu stated.

He pointed retired that the national government’s determination to unfastened a impermanent importation model for indispensable nutrient commodities—including maize, husked brownish rice, wheat, and cowpeas—stabilised the marketplace without discouraging section production.

Yakubu further noted that the government’s organisation of 2 cardinal bags of fertiliser to farmers escaped of charge, on with subsidies providing fertiliser astatine 50 per cent of the cost, importantly boosted cultivation output.

He added that further interventions, specified arsenic providing farmers with improved seeds, seedlings, and agrochemicals, were besides instrumental successful expanding nutrient availability.

Yakubu said, “What we are witnessing contiguous is the effect of deliberate argumentation interventions by the Tinubu-led medication to code structural imbalances successful Nigeria’s agriculture sector.”

The ATT noted that Minister Kyari’s caller remarks connected nationalist television—where helium defended the dual strategy of accumulation enactment and impermanent imports—aligned with President Tinubu’s directive to clang nutrient prices done coordinated measures by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) committee connected nutrient security.

The radical acknowledged that portion challenges remain, Nigerians should admit the existent administration’s efforts, particularly fixed the authorities of the assemblage erstwhile President Tinubu assumed office.

“President Tinubu inherited a profoundly flawed nutrient information architecture successful 2023, which prompted the declaration of a authorities of exigency connected nutrient information successful July of that year. His swift and bold actions are present opening to nutrient results,” Yakubu added.