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Showing posts with label green alternatives. Show all posts
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Thursday, July 21, 2016
Agriculture; Nigeria embrace green alternative policy.
Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture has unveiled a new plan aimed at ensuring the protection of local and foreign investments. Audu Ogbeh told journalists after this week’s Federal Cabinet meeting, that his ministry was talking with the Interior Ministry about training personnel, to take up that responsibility.
State House correspondent Tai Amodu reports that the cabinet has endorsed a document containing all policies needed to make agriculture the alternative to oil.
The document, called “The Green Alternative,” contains objectives, policies and interventions needed to be put in place in order for Nigeria to achieve self sufficiency and become a major importer of agricultural products as it used to be in the 60s and 70s.
Ogbeh concedes that times are hard and there is severe shortage of food, noting that this is due to the fact that Nigeria imports a large part of the food it consumes.Read more

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