We’ve grain reserve deficit of 3.4 MMT – FG The Punch Published 10 July 2021 The grain intervention deficit of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is now 3.4 million metric tonnes, figures released by the FMARD showed on Friday. Figures released by the ministry through its Director of Information, Theodore Ogaziechi, showed that the organisation now had a grain intervention deficit of 3.4 million metric tonnes. The ministry stated, “The grain intervention capacity of the FMARD is just a mere 100,000 metric tonnes, which is a far cry from the recommended 3.5 million metric tonnes grain storage for a Nigerian population of about 200 millon by the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations.”