The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Resources, Chief Audu Ogbeh, has tasked all the state Governors in the country to emulate Kano State in its efforts at boosting agriculture, food security and providing jobs for jobless citizens.
The Minister made the recommendation while speaking during his tour of Kano State government’s agricultural projects, he said “Nigeria has to feed her citizens and other countries. There is a request for 37,000 metric tons of maize at N4.2 billion by Namibia. Food business is now the biggest in Nigeria. It is time for the farmers to be legitimately rich.”
The Minister on his visit also commissioned 1,000 boreholes across 24 Local Government Areas in the state, an initiative which the state has employed to encourage farmers to produce more wheat under its Commercial Agriculture program.
During the commissioning of the boreholes at Alkamawa in Bunkure local government area, Ogbeh said “I am personally excited by what I have seen here. I think the revolution in agriculture has started, and I am looking forward for the day when Nigeria will begin selling wheat and not importing wheat.”
Also present at the commissioning was the Governor of the state, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, who reiterated that his administration was determined to ensure all year round farming activities in the state prompting that the challenge of an all year round farming gave birth to the drilling of 1,000 boreholes under the “Drive Away Dry Season” program.
“The state’s agricultural policy provide necessary impetus aimed at facilitating increased agricultural output and employment generation to the teeming populace under the newly introduced concept of developing commercial agriculture”, Governor Ganduje added.