FG Rallies Global Partners To Deliver Food Security Results

The curate of Agriculture and Food Security, Abubakar Kyari said that the ministry was gathering beardown partnerships with planetary organisations and backstage investors to accelerate cultivation translation and nutrient security.

The curate stated this during a high-level sheet treatment astatine the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations Hand-in-Hand Sahel Regional Initiative successful Rome.

The league focused connected mobilising capacity, partnerships and concern to reshape agrifood systems for greater resilience and productivity.

According to a connection issued by the ministry’s caput of accusation department, Ezeaja Ikemefuna Kyari, helium emphasised that strategical public–private collaboration remains cardinal to unlocking the afloat imaginable of the region’s farmers, processors, and agribusinesses.

He said specified collaboration would thrust innovation, fortify institutions, amended financing systems, and physique the enabling situation needed to present measurable results successful nutrient information and occupation creation.

The curate highlighted respective ongoing reforms designed to boost backstage assemblage information successful Nigeria’s agrifood sector. Among these is the National Agrifood System Investment Plan (NASIP), presently being upgraded into a National public–private concern portal to showcase bankable opportunities successful mechanisation, irrigation, storage, processing, logistics, and integer agriculture.

He besides mentioned efforts to streamline concern incentives, including targeted taxation reliefs, import work waivers, and risk-sharing facilities developed successful concern with planetary fiscal institutions. In addition, the authorities is scaling up the Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones (SAPZ) from 8 to 27 states to supply integrated infrastructure to trim costs for agro-processors.

Another cardinal intervention, Kyari noted, is the Nigeria Postharvest Systems Transformation Programme (NiPHaST), which seeks to chopped the N3.5 trillion mislaid annually to postharvest inefficiencies done modern storage, acold chain, and warehousing systems.

He said, ‘’The ministry volition beryllium committed to hard, applicable enactment of aligning argumentation with possibility; of turning concern promises into factual projects that make jobs, provender families, and empower communities; of ensuring that the Hand-in-Hand Initiative delivers measurable, lasting translation for Nigeria’s agrifood systems’’.

“Under the enactment of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Nigeria is committed to creating an enabling situation wherever investors tin thrive alongside farmers.

We volition enactment manus successful manus with FAO, IFAD, AfDB, the World Bank Group, ECOWAS, and the backstage assemblage to crook concern promises into factual projects that provender families, make jobs, and fortify nutrient sovereignty,” helium added.