Dry season farming: Stakeholders speak on deepening food insecurity
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Most small-scale farmers in Nigeria rely on rainfed cultivation and do not have access to adequate water sources to engage in large-scale dry season production, leading to local shortages of important crops and high market prices in the dry season due to the lack of technique to cultivate them when the weather condition becomes harsh.
The unpredictability of rainfall patterns and amount in northern Nigeria implies the need for farmers to engage in dry-season farming to boost their incomes.
With the growing population of the country and the realisation that importation of any major food item will continually drain the country’s external reserves, export its jobs to countries where those food items are produced and the need to be food-secure, President Muhammadu Buhari established a National Food Security Council to address challenges in the country’s food and agriculture sectors.
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By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja
Following the controversy and legal battle over leadership of the All Farmers Association of Nigeria, AFAN, the incumbent National President, Arc Kabir Ibrahim, yesterday, alleged that the other faction of the association led by one Faruk Rabi’u Mudi, has disobeyed the order of the Federal High Court stopping him and his group from parading themselves as an executive of the association.
This was contained in a statement signed by Arc Ibrahim, where it pointed that the Judge, Justice Taiwo Taiwo, asked Counsel of the plaintiffs to inform his clients to stop parading themselves as leaders of AFAN pending determination of the suit.
By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja
Following the controversy and legal battle over leadership of the All Farmers Association of Nigeria, AFAN, the incumbent National President, Arc Kabir Ibrahim, yesterday, alleged that the other faction of the association led by one Faruk Rabi’u Mudi, has disobeyed the order of the Federal High Court stopping him and his group from parading themselves as an executive of the association.
This was contained in a statement signed by Arc Ibrahim, where it pointed that the Judge, Justice Taiwo Taiwo, asked Counsel of the plaintiffs to inform his clients to stop parading themselves as leaders of AFAN pending determination of the suit.
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