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2021-05-07 02:31:04 GMT2021-05-07 10:31:04(Beijing Time) Xinhua English ABUJA, May 7 (Xinhua) -- Nigeria aims to attain self-sufficiency in the production of maize by 2022, given a remarkable increase in the output over the past six years, the country's central bank chief said Thursday. At the launch of the 2021 maize wet season farming and first maize pyramid in Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, told an audience in the northwestern state of Katsina that the aim of becoming self-sufficient in maize production would be achieved through a synergy between ...

In the last 45 years, Nigeria has had quite a number of policy drives such as Operation Feed the Nation(OFN), Green Revolution (GR), Agricultural Transformation Agenda(ATA), Agricultural Promotion Policy(APP) to name a few coinages in search of food sufficiency that will lead to FOOD SECURITY