As freshly-harvested foodstuff arrive the markets and gradually alter the widely-acknowledged countrywide high food prices, it will be historically appropriate to make public the unique contribution of the North-East geo-political zone to development of the agricultural sector in Nigeria. The zone has produced nine Ministers of Agriculture from 1966 when the Ministry was created to date.
It is intriguing that the former North Eastern state, which is now broken into Borno, Yobe, Adamawa, Taraba, Gombe and Bauchi states has produced the largest number of Ministers for the agricultural sector in Nigeria.
At inception, the lofty purpose of the Ministry was written thus, “to optimize agriculture and intergrate rural development for the transformation of the Nigerian economy, with a view to attaining food security and making Nigeria a food exporter.”
