Food inflation has reached 40 per cent according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), pushing the prices of essential commodities beyond the reach of millions of Nigerians.
“The shrinkage of land mass for agric, flooding, habitation problems, and insecurity…
An ageing farming population; younger people are not going into agriculture now,” he said.Kyari said the government is further ramping up moves for mechanised farming with the distribution of fertilizers to farmers and efforts to purchase tractors.“We have ordered. It’s not like chewing gum; you can’t buy it off the shelf.
I went to Belarus and ordered 200 tractors and 9,000 other implements,” the minister said on the current affairs show.
“The basic implement for farming in Nigeria is a hoe, which is archaic and antique. That’s why we are talking mechanisation,” said Kyari.
