The Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima, has stated that food Security is one of the priorities of President Bola Tinubu’s administration, News About Nigeria reports.
On Thursday, he said this while commissioning a Grain Processing Innovative Centre, GPIC worth $1 million built in Kano.
He noted that the Hub, in collaboration with the Flour Mills of Nigeria plc, will address food insecurity challenges bedeviling the country and African region at large.
The Vice President, who was represented by the Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Abubakar Kyari, also reaffirmed the Federal Government’s commitment to turn around the situation in the country in terms of hunger and the nation’s economy.
According to him, the investment, is a positive move to assist Nigeria to address the bottleneck associated with grain production in the country.
“Food security is top most of the agenda of President Bola Tinubu’s administration. We know we are going through trying times right now in terms of food security and in the economy in general, we see it but we are also working very hard to be on top of the situation to turn things around. We know that no softer emergency measures to attack hunger. The key to turn the situation around is sustainability of most of what we already have.
“Nigeria produces about 33 million metric tonnes of grains annually. Now, the GPIC will improve our capacity to process and reduce significantly how much of that we do. It also means that as we increase production of grains, we also process more. And that is why we are here. We stand to support the move by this initiative with enabling policies,” he stated.
