Way of life Nigeria learned that, as part of efforts to increase the nation’s food supply, the Federal Government has disclosed a proposal to use vacant acres of land in postsecondary institutions for farming.
This was said by Senator Abubakar Kyari, Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, at the Seventh-Day Adventist Church’s Centennial Public Lecture and Food Summit on Friday in Port Harcourt. The theme of the event was “Ending Food Shortage in Nigeria, How to Apply The Surplus Concept.”
Kyari, who was accompanied by Nuhu Kilishi, the ministry’s deputy director for nutrition and food safety, stated that letters asking for the institutions’ permission had already been issued.
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He said that several postsecondary institutions have already started to react positively, stating that the initiative will undoubtedly be a step toward bringing farming back into the classroom.
“We want to revive farming in the schools and institutions,” Kyari declared. We have written to colleges and universities asking them to grant us access to hectares of their underutilized land.
“They have begun to respond. A program to guarantee that those vacant lands are being used for cultivation will be in place by the time we have a respectable degree of compliance, which will increase the amount of food available.”
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