Farmers on Thursday called on the Federal Government to provide subsidies and implement policies to help them achieve nutrition and food security amid hardship and insecurity.
The President of the Potato Farmers Association of Nigeria (POFAN), Chief Daniel Okafor, who made the appeal during the annual stakeholders’ forum and farmers training workshop in Abuja, urged the government to help them address security challenges facing smallholder farmers.
He pointed out that in most developed countries where food is sufficient, the government provides subsidies for farmers to enable them to sell food products at an affordable price.
He lamented that the annual budgetary allocation for the agricultural sector among other interventions by the government were not getting to the right beneficiaries.
Speaking on market and economic trends, he added, “A bag of fertilizer now costs farmers 46,000 Naira,…
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