In a significant push for food security, the federal authorities has set up a technical committee to instantly speed up livestock growth and staple crop manufacturing nationwide.
Specifically, the committee is to expedite motion on strategic interventions within the agricultural sector, concentrating on wheat and different staple crops manufacturing in addition to livestock growth.
The Vice President, Kashim Shettima, constituted the committee on Tuesday throughout a high-level assembly on agricultural sector efficiency and strategic interventions on the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Mr Shettima charged members of the committee to cross-pollinate concepts and are available up with a blueprint on implementing strategic interventions within the agricultural sector.
The assembly got here as a sequel to a bigger assembly with President Bola Tinubu final week, the place agricultural and different multi-sector stakeholders have been current.
The committee contains representatives of the Federal Ministries of Agriculture and Food Security; Water Resources and Sanitation; Livestock Development; Finance Incorporated (MOFI); Special Adviser and Coordinator, Presidential Livestock Reform; Senior Special Assistant to the President on Agribusiness and Productivity Enforcement; the Senior Special Assistant to the President Food Security, and the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Livestock Development.
Other members of the committee embrace the Chief Executive Officers of Bank of Industry; Bank of Agriculture; National Agricultural Land Development Authority; National Agricultural Seeds Council; National Agricultural Development Fund; National Centre for Agricultural Mechanization; National Sugar Council of Nigeria; Nigeria Commodities Exchange, and National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure.
The committee shall be coordinated by the Technical Adviser to the Vice President on Agriculture and Head of the Presidential Food Systems Coordinating Unit, Marion Moon.
The Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Abubakar Kyari, mentioned that as well as to setting up the technical committee, the assembly deliberated on addressing vital challenges confronting farmers and leveraging accessible assets to scale up wheat manufacturing and dry-season farming throughout the nation.
He mentioned that in the course of the assembly with the president, the vp was requested to additional determine among the current challenges within the agricultural sector and tackle them.
The minister defined: “Mr President had always encouraged the all-year-around farming, and we’re looking at coordination between all sectors and also including subnationals, states, and local governments – how we can impact and utilise the prices in famine.”
On the committee, Mr Kyari mentioned, “It is a technical committee with members from the various MDAs to sit and coordinate on behalf of all, and come up with its resolutions in execution. The report of the technical committee will have to be subjected to another committee before presenting to His Excellency, the Vice President and then subsequently to Mr. President.”
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Earlier in her presentation, Ms Moon famous that agricultural growth is a shared accountability between the federal, state and native governments.
She recognized a disconnect among the many three tiers of presidency, advising that the gaps making it tough to perceive what is occurring on the subnational degree needs to be bridged.
“So, as we think about what we’re doing – what we should prioritise – itis very important to ensure that we are in harmony and synergy with what is happening at the state level,” she said.
Stanley Nkwocha
Senior Special Assistant To The President on Media & Communications
(Office of The Vice President)
twentieth October, 2026
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