President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday, August 7, said
that the time has come for Nigerians to do more than pay
mere lip service to agriculture, as crude oil and gas exports
will no longer be sufficient as the country’s major revenue
earner.
President Buhari says it is time to go back to agriculture.
Femi Adesina, the special adviser to the president on media
and publicity, said the leader of the country made the
declaration at an audience with Dr Kanayo Nwanze, the
Nigerian-born president of the International Fund for
Agricultural Development (IFAD), at the presidential villa,
Abuja.
“It’s time to go back to the land. We must face the reality
that the petroleum we had depended on for so long will no
longer suffice. We campaigned heavily on agriculture, and
we are ready to assist as many as want to go into
agricultural ventures,” the president said.
He also pledged that his administration would also cut
short the long bureaucratic processes that the Nigerian
farmers have to go through to get any form of assistance
from government.
President Buhari also told the IFAD president that
improvement of the productivity of farmers, dry season
farming and creative ways to combat the shrinking of the
Lake Chad would also receive the attention of his
administration.
Adesina Visits Buhari In Aso Rock
Meanwhile, still in his bid to bring change to Nigeria,
President Buhari has ordered the ministry to produce a plan
for the establishment of a military industrial complex for the
local production of weapons for the needs of the Nigerian
Armed Forces.
