The Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Abubakar Kyari, has vowed to implement President Bola Tinubu’s agenda on food security in the country.
The minister said this when Katsina State Governor, Dikko Radda, paid him a courtesy call on Tuesday in Abuja.
He said Katsina State remained one of the frontier states in the quest to achieve President Bola Tinubu’s food security agenda through the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, according to Daily Post.
“There is no gainsaying that we are out to achieve Mr President’s agenda of food security, poverty reduction and job creation,” he said.
He reiterated that the agric ministry was also committed to achieving the Federal Government’s plan to cultivate 500,000 hectares of arable lands to ensure food security.
“Like I mentioned before, we have to collaborate with the states and local governments to come up with a genuine and verifiable farmers list.
“This is very important because we have to know who the real farmers are, and by doing so, we have to collaborate with the local authorities.
“This is so they can buy into our programmes, and so we can succeed in what we set out to do,” he said.
Speaking earlier, Gov. Radda revealed that insecurity affecting food production and security of lives and property had been reduced by 70 per cent in Katsina.
