Niger state Governor, Mohammed Umar Bago on Tuesday presented the 2024 budget which he tagged “Budget for the Future” to the state House of Assembly.
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ASHENEWS reports that the Niger State governor Mohammed Umaru Bago says that his administration will procure agricultural equipment worth N500 billion.
The House of Representatives Committee on National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) has tasked the agency on researches on security, agriculture and infrastructure to improve forex earnings.
The Director, Information and Communications Technology (ICT), Gombe State University, Dr Bala Modi has urged stakeholders in agriculture to explore Artificial Intelligence (AI) to boost food security in the country.
The Nigerian Senate has urged the executive to ensure allocation of at least 10 percent of total annual budget revenue to agricultural production.
An agriculture expert, Dr Ismail Olawale, has called for increased budgetary allocation to the agriculture sector as the 2024 Appropriation Bill is before the House of Assembly.
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Some agriculture experts have called for the sensitization of local against agrochemicals misuse in the country to boost food security.
From time immemorial, agriculture was Nigeria’s economic mainstay, however, overtime, agriculture has been relegated to the background for obvious reasons, it’s on record that Nigeria’s endowment with vast natural resources of arable land from the stretch of savanna grassland, the dense swamp and rainforest, the untapped and unhannessed abundant quantities of solid minerals almost all over the country have either been misused or put to abandonment over the years.
The Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Security, Sen. Sabi Abdullahi, says about 50 million out of the 80 million hectares of arable land in the country remain uncultivated.