The Niger State Authorities has expressed willingness to pilot the Federal Authorities’s deliberate 500,000 hectares of agricultural manufacturing programme introduced by President Bola Tinubu in his New 12 months message.
The state governor, Mohammed Umar Bago, made this disclosure shortly after a gathering with Nigeria President in Abuja.
He defined that at the moment, Niger is the main state by way of the meals safety initiative of the President, noting that it has began the implementation of a complete of 250,000 hectares of dry season farming.
On the aim of the go to, the governor mentioned: “We’ve got already signed an settlement with some corporations for off-take and simply to maintain him up to the mark with what we’re doing in agriculture.
“For those who had listened fastidiously to Mr. President’s New 12 months’s speech, you’d have seen the emphasis on agriculture and likewise the five hundred,000 hectares the federal government is planning to farm in 2024.
“The state has additionally supplied itself as a pilot state for that undertaking and can also be bold to match the federal authorities’s 500,000 with 500,000.”
Talking additional on farmers displaced from their ancestral properties within the state by insecurity, he mentioned, “They’re already again on their farms.”