World Food Day: Federal Govt Worries As 19.4m People Face Food Insecurity

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The lingering negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate extremes and the ongoing floods have worsened food insecurity and put over 19 million

He said, “Nigeria is doing everything humanly possible to make sure that the people expected to be hungry will not go hungry and that is why we do have grains in our strategic grains reserve that we keep 100,000 metric tonnes.

“So we are also looking at alternative ways of getting raw material instead of buying from Ukraine or Russia. So now we are looking for other places, and also Mr President has directed that we look internally and we are scouting and we have found we have a deposit of potash which is one of the precursors of producing fertiliser.

 

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Where do these guys get them statistics from...I vote they are highly inaccurate

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