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The Minister of Agriculture and
Food Security, Abubakar Kyari, has said the current administration with support
from state governments will flush out unverifiable farmers posing as portfolio
farmers.
This, he said, would give room to
real farmers to benefit from government interventions to boost food production.
Kyari stated this in Abuja when
Katsina State Governor, Dikko Umar Radda, paid him a courtesy visit.
He said the federal government
will collaborate with the states and local governments to come up with a
genuine and verifiable farmer list.
"This is very important because we have
to know who the real farmers are.
"We are committed and we are assuring our
citizens that we are also going to exceed Mr President's target.
"First thing first, we have to
collaborate with the states and local governments to come up with a genuine and
verifiable farmer list.
"In addition, we are going to set up from
our side and the side of the states a task force team to make sure that this
programme is successful like the land tripping issue, veritable data and the
inability of farmers to come up with their own portion because of the
precarious economic situation that we have found ourselves in.
In his remarks, Governor Radda,
said he would separate politicians parading as farmers from the real farmers
and empower them.
"In Katsina State, we have been able to
separate the two. Politics be on the other side, real farmers be on the other
side. "We want to have a way of helping the politicians without
necessarily taking what he does not deserve and without necessarily taking what
he will not utilise adequately and will end up selling it in the market without
much impact on the economy.''
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