Igberetv reports that Dr. Maimuna Habib, the Director, Projects Coordinating Unit at the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, , has said that Nigeria has attained food sufficiency.
The directior said this in an interview on Thursday in Abuja as Nigeria commemorates the World Food Day.
She said: ”We have attained food sufficiency; all we need to do is to blow our trumpet because no foreigner will tell anybody what is happening in the country. Looking at all that is happening in agricultural sector, we have gone into value addition of all our commodities from the North to the South, all over the country we have added value to all our products,”
“Most of the farmers are women and youths, we have trained them, we have empowered them and they are happy.”
Habib said that the border closure is the best step the government can take to achieve food sufficiency. She said that the citizenry now eat what the people produce and that the country’s food is healthier.
“When we bring imported food into the country our own foods go nowhere, there is no market for us but now there is market, farmers are making more money.
“I am a farmer and I know how much I sold my maize and cowpea seeds recently,” she said.
Speaking on the high prices of goods, she stated that it was expected to be so as the border is closed, but in a short time prices would soon come down.
“The prices will soon crash, it’s just because people are feeling we do not have enough food to have closed the border, but we have enough food in the country.”
