The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Mohammed Mahmood Abubakar, has said that the Federal Government is working with the customs to make sure the smuggling of food is stopped in order to avoid shortage of food in the country.
He said this during a working visit to the headquarters of the National Horticultural Research Institute in Ibadan recently.
The Minister added that as part of plans to make sure the country does not experience food shortage; the ministry will embark on dry season farming which will commence next month.
He also noted that “Agriculture is the number one sector making a significant contribution to the GDP of the country.”
His words, “We will make sure that all the agencies we are working with, Customs, for example, make sure food is not smuggled out of the country. Because what we don’t want is to have no shortage of food.
“We have no shortage of food right now. We have food in the country, I am telling you categorically, and we will make sure there is no shortage of food. We are doing so much; we are going to start dry season farming next month and we plan to intensify that.
“Mr President is very supportive of this ministry. We all know when he came in, Ag
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