Fed govt to recover 350,000 hectares of degraded land for agriculture

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The Minister of Environment, Balarabe Lawal, has said the federal government is working with the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations to recover 350,000 hectares of degraded land in the north for agriculture.

The minister said this yesterday at a high level Partnering to Scale Up Climate Actions in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations – Zooming in on Food Security,” organised by FAO in Rome, Italy. Lawal said that in collaboration with state governments, the administration of President Bola Tinubu has deployed renewable energy kits, solar street lights, solar boreholes, clean cooking solutions as well as the construction of good roads to communities for economic and security purposes.

“Federal government in collaboration with the sub-nationals are engaging in several livelihood support programmes like training on climate resilience agriculture, irrigation, tractors usage, supplying farmers with improved seeds and seedlings, animal species and fertilisers.”

 

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