Governor Mohammed Bago of Niger State and his Gombe State counterpart, Governor Inuwa Yahaya, on Thursday, individually held discussions with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to discover avenues of collaboration with the federal authorities to boost meals safety within the nation.
Recall that president Tinubu, in his New Yr’s speech, said the necessity for investing in agriculture and likewise revealed the federal government’s plan to domesticate 500,000 hectares of farmland throughout the nation for the cultivation of maize, rice, wheat, millet, and different staple crops.
Governor Bago, after his assembly with Nigeria President, said that Niger State had reserved half of the focused hectares of land for dry-season farming.
Within the previous weeks, the state had signed agreements with varied non-public and authorities entities, together with the Nationwide Company for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) and Tata Group of Corporations, to boost agricultural output.
Governor Bago said ongoing initiatives in his state, “We’re about to do a complete of 250,000 hectares of dry-season farming, for which we’ve already signed agreements with some corporations for off-take.”
He said the progress made within the agricultural sector and expressed optimism that the partnership with the federal authorities would yield constructive leads to boosting meals safety.
Regardless of challenges posed by safety issues in native communities the place agricultural actions predominantly happen, Governor Bago affirmed that farmers have returned to the farm.
On his half, Governor Yahaya of Gombe State, after his assembly with Nigeria President, introduced a complete scorecard of his administration spanning 2019 to 2023.
“It’s the full content material of what we did spanning by means of 2019 and 2023, which was the primary time period that I did, protecting all of the sectors vis-a-vis manifestoes and developmental plan that we did for Gombe State that may take us until 2030.
“We rated ourselves and noticed what we did and put them to footage with proof of actions that we took half in a number of points in all of the sectors and I mentioned it’s a good doc that we present to the president what we actually are doing in Gombe and the place we’re able to go so far as efficiency is worried,” he said.
He up to date the President on technical points, emphasizing the necessity to handle issues submit the passage of the 2024 finances into regulation.
Talking on collaboration between Gombe State and the federal authorities, Yahaya highlighted engagements in healthcare and creating an enabling enterprise surroundings.
He confused the significance of financial collaboration for progress and expressed readiness to work carefully with the federal authorities to realize developmental objectives.
Governor Inuwa additionally shared Gombe State’s participation within the federal authorities’s meals safety initiative, stating the necessity for a holistic method.
“We’re ready, however it doesn’t finish with planning or take off. We should be all by means of from the start and to the top, the best way it’s now, folks have to know that we should modernize.”
“There’s a want for machine instruments, there’s a want for processing; fortunately Gombe State is among the many states which were authorised to be a part of particular agric processing zones and we arrange an industrial park the place we are able to course of all of the agricultural produce that we’ve got within the state.
“I believe if all states will key in and work in tandem with the FG, we will simply attain the vacation spot,” he concluded.