On Thursday, the Niger State Governor, Mohammed Bago, and his Gombe State counterpart, Inuwa Yahaya, separately met with President Bola Tinubu to discuss how they can collaborate with the federal government to achieve food security in the country.
Mr Tinubu had during his New Year’s speech emphasised the need to invest in agriculture. He also disclosed that his government is targeting to use 500,000 hectares of land for farming this year.
“To ensure constant food supply, security and affordability, we will step up our plan to cultivate 500,000 hectares of farmlands across the country to grow maize, rice, wheat, millet and other staple crops,” the president had said. “We launched the dry season farming with 120,000 hectares of land in Jigawa State last November under our National Wheat Development Programme.”
