President Muhammadu Buhari said Friday in Abuja that the time has come
for Nigerians to do more than pay mere lip service to agriculture, as
crude oil and gas exports will no longer be sufficient as the country's
major revenue earner.
A statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and
Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, said Buhari made the declaration at an
audience with Dr Kanayo Nwanze, the Nigerian-born President of the
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), at the
Presidential Villa.
"It's time to go back to the land. We must face the reality that the
petroleum we had depended on for so long will no longer suffice. We
campaigned heavily on agriculture, and we are ready to assist as many as
want to go into agricultural ventures," the President said.
He pledged that his administration would also cut short the long
bureaucratic processes that Nigerian farmers have to go through to get
any form of assistance from government.
He told the IFAD President that improvement of the productivity of
farmers, dry season farming, and creative ways to combat the shrinking
of the Lake Chad would also receive the attention of his administration.
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