‘You will still be hungry’ – Tinubu's minister blames El Niño for meals scarcity

The Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Abubakar Kyari, says Nigeria’s projected meals insecurity disaster is because of local weather change, inconsistent rainfall and the Super El Niño phenomenon.

Kyari mentioned this in a press release, claiming that the climate is not secure and the lengthy dry season has shifted planting time, affecting farm produce and making it onerous for farmers to rely upon rainfall to farm.

“Food insecurity is brought on by Super El Niño and local weather change. It is affecting our farms and meals manufacturing,” he mentioned.

Kyari mentioned the administration of President Bola Tinubu is giving farmers extra fertiliser and different farm inputs, bringing in additional tractors, increasing irrigation and dry season farming, giving extra farm loans and constructing storage and processing centres.

He mentioned safety has improved in some farming communities, so farmers who ran away from their farms can now return to farm.

The minister talked about Marte and Guzamala in Borno State, saying the areas at the moment are extra peaceable and officers have been in a position to go there to do the Cadre Harmonisé evaluation, after they might not enter the locations earlier than due to insecurity.