With less than a year to the end of the United Nations Anti- Poverty Millenium Development Goals (MDGs), the first lady, Dame Patience Jonathan has said that Nigeria will not cry for food as it has halved the proportion of those who suffer from hunger way ahead of the 2015 deadline.
The first lady stated this yesterday in Abuja, at the official launch of Agricultural Empowerment Programme for Rural Farmers, organised by the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on MDGs, during which over 230,000 bags of fertiliser were distributed to farmers across the country.
Dame Patience described the distribution of the fertilisers as a move aimed at bolstering the nation’s productivity as well as contributing immensely to the realisation of Mr President’s Agricultural Transformation Agenda, and commended farmers for their sacrifice which aided the country to attain goal one of the MDGs.
According to her, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in 2013 acknowledged that Nigeria has halved the proportion of those who suffer from hunger way ahead of the 2015 deadline.
She said, “It is a thing of joy that under President Jonathan, significant improvements have been made in the agricultural sector, particularly in the area of fertiliser distribution. The National Fertiliser Policy for Nigeria is such that fertiliser seeds are now sold by the companies directly to farmers through an e-wallet system”.
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