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Local food production rises to 8.1 million Tonnes

By on November 6, 2012

Okra Produce at Food Market

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina yesterday disclosed that Nigeria’s local food supply and production has risen to 8.1 million metric tonnes.

 

The Minister disclosed this at a seminar on Agricultural Commodity Value Chain Development in Nigeria, organised by the Agricultural and Rural Management Training Institute (ARMTI) in Abuja.

 

Adesina stated that the country will soon graduate into a major food exporter and stop the importation of staple foods following the development of value-chains.

 

He said, “We should be exporting food to other countries instead of importing it, especially in areas that we have comparative advantage.

 

“Nigeria must be a food self-sufficient nation. Our food produce has reached 8.1 million metric tons. The era of food importation will soon be over hence machineries have been put in place to take care of this.”