EXCLUSIVE: FG Unveils Strategy To Curb Food Prices Escalation

In a bid to curb the rising food prices, food inflation and shortages in the country, a development economist, Dr. Paul IIaye, has advised the Federal Government to set up a national agricultural development strategy to improve food production.

IIaje, in an interview with New Telegraph, explained that this was the only long term solution to enhancing food security in Nigeria, stressing that government at all levels must key in towards ensuring the successful implementation of the programme.

Speaking on the long time solutions to addressing food challenges in Nigeria, IIaje said: “Yes, there are long term solution. I think it is what governments; federal and sub-national, as well as local governments can do. “First, we need to have a national agricultural development strategy.

And this strategy must come from national agricultural development plan. By this, we must find out what is our consumption today in terms of food and what will our consumption be in the next 20 years. “Can we start feeding ourselves today and our generations yet unborn and the excess exported? We have suggested that Nigeria is so blessed from the making of Nigeria.. .Learn More While You Read Full Article. . .