‘You’ll still be hungry’ – Tinubu’s minister blames El Niño for meals shortageL

 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
now not secure and the lengthy dry season has shifted planting time, affecting
farm produce and making it laborious for farmers to depend 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 had 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.

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