Guardian NigeriaMar 8, 2024 4:55 AM

President Bola Tinubu has ordered a 93 per cent reduction in the cost of agricultural inputs for farmers to enhance food security in the country.

President Bola Tinubu has ordered a 93 per cent reduction in the cost of agricultural inputs for farmers to enhance food security in the country.


Senior Special Adviser to the President on Food Security, Yejide Ogundipe, disclosed this, yesterday, at the inauguration of state coordinators for the Nigerian Women for Agricultural Progress (NWAP) and commemoration of International Women’s Day (IWD), in Abuja.

Emphasising the government’s commitment to supporting farmers by subsidising essential agricultural inputs by 93 per cent, Ogundipe blamed banditry for the food crisis ravaging the country.

“Last year, the government gave a 50 per cent subsidy to the farmers, but some (farmers) could not even pay. Now, what the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security is doing is to give all those inputs to farmers at a very minimal cost. 93 per cent of the cost will be borne by the government.

“What this means, for instance, is that if a bag of fertiliser is N100, you only have to pay N7 while the government pays N93. We are very serious about this. The President is serious about this. We, as leaders, meet daily to discuss how to bring down the cost of food,” she stated.

The Presidential aide said the Tinubu administration had resolved to expand the capacity of farmers to engage in the cultivation of key staples like rice, maize, cassava and wheat across the country.

Stressing the need for more women to be empowered in the agriculture sector, she said “time has come for women to take their rightful place” in the sector.

She added: “The President is passionate about agriculture as we speak, and I know he is passionate about women in business, agriculture and in whatever area. The President knows that food security is important. Last year, he declared a state of emergency on food security. That was because the United Nations (UN) said by 2024, about 23 million Nigerians would be hungry. No woman wants her family to go hungry. He has expanded access to loans.


“Food insecurity is all over the world, not just Nigeria. Why we have this problem is because of banditry. The farmers could not go to the farm. Those that went to the farms were chased out, molested and some were killed. But this has reduced immensely as the security agencies are working.”

Professor of Agricultural Economics, Federal University of Technology (FUT), Minna, Faith Ibrahim, expressed the need for prioritisation of inclusive agriculture for women, noting that women farmers account for 70 to 80 per cent of Nigeria’s food production.

While calling for the creation of an enabling environment for the growth of women farmers and enhanced food security, the professor also called for the provision of single-digit loans for women farmers, emphasising the potential for increased productivity with gender-friendly policy frameworks.

National Coordinator of NWAP, Omolara Svensson, expressed the organisation’s commitment to prioritising agribusiness in Africa to enhance food security, accessibility and affordability.

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Then smuggle it to Niger, Cameroon after harvest.

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Make I go buy cutlasses.

200 naira per one cutlass.


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93%?

That’s a very big subsidy.

Wow.

President Tinubu is full of pleasant surprises.

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Implementation of these orders is the main thing

Story ... believe tinupoo at your own peril.


No be the same agriculture input money he comot #400million naira to carry Muslims to Saudi Arabia for hajj

Government of crooks

Cindypresh:
Story ... believe tinupoo at your own peril.


No be the same agriculture input money he comot #400million naira to carry Muslims to Saudi Arabia for hajj

Government of crooks

Your ability to believe negative news without verifying shit while coming up with some negative gibbersish to discredit the positive news is reflection of what u harbour in your heart

U cant be human
Nah...we arent this bitter

To be looted by the locust filled palliatives sharing party

DevilsEqual:


Your ability to believe negative news without verifying shit while coming up with some negative gibbersish to discredit the positive news is reflection of what u harbour in your heart

U cant be human
Nah...we arent this bitter

Yes, that was you people kept dishing positive news propaganda during buhari's 8 wasted years.

We know

This is a big reduction. Every farmer who buy this subsidize fertilizer must sell their crops in Nigeria

No subsidy can work in Nigeria because people are to greedy.

The farmer that got this subsidy will farm and then export any food to neighboring countries to sell for more profit. Even those selling to Nigeria will still sell at high price irrespective of the low amount they use in their production.

There has to be a model implemented that will give government legal power to buy back everything at a certain price for any farmer that key into the subsidy programme. You default, you go to jail instantly.

LegendHero:
No subsidy can work in Nigeria because people are to greedy.

The farmer that got this subsidy will farm and then export any food to neighboring countries to sell for more profit. Even those selling to Nigeria will still sell at high price irrespective of the low amount they use in their production.

There has to be a model implemented that will give government legal power to buy back everything at a certain price for any farmer that key into the subsidy programme. You default, you go to jail instantly.

You guys and your retrograde ideas
Why don't you declare Nigeria a communist state or kuku let the military take over.
Imagine being forced to sell your goods to govt as a policy in a modern state.
How does that even sound to you?
Is that how the country you ran to works?

Kukutenla:

You guys and your retrograde ideas
Why don't you declare Nigeria a communist state or kuku let the military take over.
Imagine being forced to sell your goods to govt as a policy in a modern state.
How does that even sound to you?
Is that how the country you ran to works?

If you won't conform to the government contract that gave you 95% off from your inputs, then why do need it in the first place.

As a farmer, you can source your input elsewhere and sell for any price you want BUT if you are subscribing to government 85% off, it should be a 24 years imprisonment if you default on the contract.

USA did same thing during the enactment of Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 during the Great Depression where government pay farmers who inturn must agree to sell at lower prices. When some farmers got greedy by hoarding, the government stepped in and used regulation to destroy them

Na only for Nigeriapeople dey abuse so called "freedom". If you give Nigerians too much freedom, they will sell the country tomorrow.

We told you, there's a new sheriff in town.

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COMRADES are laughing at this easier said than done president

Lol he no fit work....


I remember the last Fertilizers wey I buy I see not for sell for the Sack even though is cheaper than the normal one buh why're people selling what have not for sell content.....

50g cobra 26 tomatoes seeds is now 120K. It was 27K last year

Nice move