The Federal Authorities is to broaden efforts towards huge meals provide to feed the nation in 2024, President Bola Tinubu stated on Monday in a nationwide broadcast.
Tinubu added that provision of land for the manufacturing of staple crops throughout the nation would obtain a lift within the yr.
Tinubu, in his New 12 months message delivered in Lagos, stated that this was elements of efforts by his administration to make sure that all residents really feel the direct affect of presidency on their lives.
“To make sure fixed meals provide, safety and affordability, we are going to step up our plan to domesticate 500,000 hectares of farmlands throughout the nation to develop maize, rice, wheat, millet and different staple crops.
“We launched the dry season farming with 120,000 hectares of land in Jigawa State final November below our Nationwide Wheat Improvement Programme.
“The programme goals to allow farmers to supply ample licensed seeds, aligning with the nation’s goal of cultivating between 200,000 to 250,000 hectares of wheat below the Nationwide Agricultural Progress Scheme and Agro-pocket challenge.
“Federal Authorities will help about 150,000 to 250,000 farmers with 50 per cent enter subsidy to domesticate between 200,000 to 250,000 hectares with an anticipated yield of 1,250,000 tonnes of wheat.
“The duty of constructing a greater nation and ensuring now we have a Nigerian society that cares for all her residents is the rationale I ran to turn into your President. It was the core of my Renewed Hope marketing campaign message on the premise of which you voted me as President.
“Every little thing I’ve completed in workplace, each choice I’ve taken and each journey I’ve undertaken exterior the shores of our land, since I assumed workplace on 29 Might 2023, have been completed in the very best curiosity of our nation.
“On this new yr, we are going to race in opposition to time to make sure all of the fiscal and tax insurance policies reforms we have to put in place are codified and simplified to make sure the enterprise atmosphere doesn’t destroy worth.
“On each overseas journey I’ve launched into, my message to traders and different enterprise folks has been the identical -Nigeria is prepared and open for enterprise,’’ he stated.
Tinubu additionally stated that the availability of regular electrical energy provide would obtain a lift with the initiatives put in place to grasp this, including that the presidential initiative on energy provide has been accelerated together with his overseas engagement in Germany.
“Simply this previous December throughout COP28 in Dubai, the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, and I agreed and dedicated to a brand new deal to hurry up the supply of the Siemens Power energy challenge that may in the end ship dependable provide of electrical energy to our houses and companies below the Presidential Energy Initiative which started in 2018.
“Different energy set up initiatives to strengthen the reliability of our transmission strains and optimise the integrity of our Nationwide grid are on-going throughout the nation.
“My administration recognises that no significant financial transformation can occur with out regular electrical energy provide.
“In 2024, we’re shifting a step additional in our quest to restart native refining of petroleum merchandise with Port Harcourt Refinery, and the Dangote Refinery which shall absolutely come on stream.”
The president known as on Nigerians to help authorities to achieve its laudable insurance policies and programmes.
“The present difficulties are vital for a greater future; Nigera will likely be higher for it,” he stated.
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