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Food Security: Nigeria Needs 312,000 Metric Tonnes of Seeds for Food Security - Kyari

POSTED ON April 18, 2024 •   Agriculture      BY Abiodun Saheed Omodara
Agriculture and Food Security Minister, Abubakar Kyari l Credit: Abubakar Kyari l Source: Facebook

Agriculture and Food Security Minister, Abubakar Kyari, said Nigeria needs roughly 312,000 metric tonnes of seeds this year to ensure food security, food sufficiency, and global security.

Kyari disclosed this on Wednesday while speaking at a high-level stakeholders’ forum on seed system development in Abuja held by Feed-the-Future Nigeria Integrated Agriculture Activity.

Speaking on the theme, “A paradigm of USAID interventions in northeastern Nigeria: Enhancing Seed Systems Development for Improved Food Security,” Kyari assured that food security is achievable in Nigeria.

The minister, represented by the Director of the National Food and Strategic Reserve, Dr Haruna Suleiman said the the ministry had developed a number of vital avenues to address the country’s food security issues.

Kyari said: “Major crops that are most concerned are rice, maize, wheat, sorghum, and cowpea in 2024.

“We require about 312,000 metric tonnes of seeds to enable us to achieve the required metric tonnes.”

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