President Muhammadu Buhari has advised Nigerian farmers to increase their food production as Nigeria has ‘no money’ for food importation.
PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported how the president observed the Islamic ‘Eid’ prayer to mark the end of Ramadan fast privately with his family; based on the nationwide restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic.“I wish the farmers could go and stay in their farms so that we can produce what we need sufficiently so that we don’t have to import. In any case, we don’t have money to import so we must produce what we have to eat,” he said.
The president directed the ministers to develop a comprehensive policy for a ‘Nigerian Economy functioning with COVID-19.’ Since the Buhari administration assumed office, the government has put in place several mechanisms to assist farmers with resources, farm inputs, seedlings, and other materials. The government’s Anchor Borrowers Programme, managed by the, is largely responsible for Nigeria’s massive increase in local rice production.
How can a common farmer produce more when the government fall to protect lives and property of people in rural areas?
aminugamawa Banditry is making farmers forsake their far-sited farms.
aminugamawa Incentive them, support them!! Small farmers need help...
I greets u all I too like to back to d farm but d problems of Fulani herdsmen won't let me enuf farm land with nice weather to support pls helps us out baba
Una give dem money to seedlings 4 production of foods?on lockdown u dey ask farmers to produce more foods wil dey produce it inside their rooms or on their beds one state use 55 million to buy cow for salah dat money no reach to put in agriculture oya make una come chop naa
All d money collected frm Abacha loot n d money people contributed n d ones dis country has made so y didn't u pple invest it in agriculture, health sector now wat happen to dat money so farmers should produce more na now no more money to import food abi e never clear una for eye
About time!
Open the economy Sir MBuhari. Nigeria & Africa at large can't contain the social consequences of a prolonged lockdown - hunger, insecurity and restiveness! Already private schools workers & their families are paying for it, with no plans on ground to cushion the effects!
Resolve farmer header crisis and watch food production rise .
This is a good call Mr. president, but do more to stop the herders from killing the farmers so that they can produce more.
U luck all the states and you're urging them to produce more of foodstuffs
After kidnappers, herdsmen, bandits, are them any how
Review public sector remuneration especially executive & legislative salaries & allowances😬
Nigerian farmers are more than ready if security men are being deployed to strategic places across the nation to restore law and order in their farmlands and environs.
With ur brothers killing them in the farm and ur Government is doing nothing abt it
Produce more?...on which farms?...the one your fulani cattle rearing bros have devastated with reckless abandon with illegal grazing?...maimed,raped & murdered the original owners of the land?...u are the worst kind of hypocrite Mr president!
All the Farmers have being locked Baba. The ones going to farm are afraid to go anymore because of Bandits and Kidnappers
Lord scammander 😭😭
The reality of present Economic situation, but baba tell your herdsmen boys to allow peace reign and let farmers plant
Produce more for the cows to eat or for humans? You can't feed crops to your cows and sell the same crops in the market too. CommonSense
What has he done in boosting the agricultural sector?
okay...we go back to the farms then!
Your Fulani herdsmen won't allow farmers & their crops to survive After production and harvest, police and army won't allow them at checkpoints without extortion. While at the markets, multiple taxation won't allow traders to sell at affordable prices. Indicators of bad govt.
Nigeria...🤓🤓🤔🤔🤔
Buharist.
You are absolutely right. Nigeria best President ever MBuhari .
Idiot.
With their mouse you are expecting to produce food, you have to provide adequate fercilities to them.
What about all the billions of dollars that was given to me President by other countries
Protect more Nigerians have more dead than the living
Mbuhari the farmers are ready to produce more, just tell your Fulani herdsmen to let them be.
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