The Federal Government, on Tuesday, declared that the prices of food items nationwide would crash soon based on its commitment to ensure food security through the use of new farming techniques in Nigeria.
It disclosed this in Abuja at the 48th Annual Conference of the Soil Science Society of Nigeria. The Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Security, Dr Aliyu Abdullahi, while speaking at the conference said the government is fully aware of the current food crisis in Nigeria.
“But we are putting all efforts in place to ensure the availability of food across the country,” the minister stated.
Abdullahi explained that the government was exploring various indices to ensure food security, working to ramp up food production by returning Nigeria to a sustainable food production system where the country would be engaged in all-year-round farming.
“We are fully aware of the current food challenge in Nigeria. We are fully aware that the problem is what we met on the ground. If it’s available, it’s available. If it’s not available, it’s not available. But we also know that even if it is available, it has to be affordable.
“We are also already planning for the next dry season. Having learned our lesson in the last one, we want to make a huge success of the next dry season farming. So for those of you who are close to where you have easy water, please take advantage of the dry-season farming
“We in the Ministry of Agricultural Food Security are doing all we can, all that is necessary, all that is sufficient to reverse the current trend, ramp up our production, guarantee that with massive production, affordability can be guaranteed