The Federal Government of Nigeria has disclosed its intention to provide food to its citizens in the upcoming year.

The FG revealed that it is aiming to produce about 31 million metric tonnes of grains in 2024 through the Ministry of Agriculture.

It claimed that this was a component of its initiatives to tackle President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s food security issue and fight food inflation nationwide.

Making this disclosure during the opening session of the 6th edition of Seed Connect Conference and Exhibition on Wednesday, Aliyu Abdullahi, the Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Security, stated that five crops the federal government had earmarked for ambition in 2024 and stated that over 300 thousand worth of seeds have been provided to the farmers.

He said, “Nigeria’s seed requirement/need for 5 major crops of Rice, Maize, Wheat, Soybeans and Sorghum in 2024 is 312,555.69MT of seeds which is expected to give almost 31 million Mt of grains.

 

“The Ministry has outlined a series of critical pathways to solve the food security challenges. These pathways are streamlined into short-term, intermediate and long-term actions.

“One immediate priority is the certification of available planting material for some food security crops in the dry season farming of 2023/2024 which we flagged off in Jigawa State last Saturday, 25 November 2023.”