“The agency stands to prevent Nigeria from becoming a dumping ground for unregulated genetically modified organisms.”
Mr Mudi told the minister that AFAN and its Nigerian company partner would provide 500,000 tricycles.
Also, the central bank has disbursed over N114.09 billion to support the fertiliser industry in the last five years.
“I am sure that this year’s harvest will be bountiful, especially for rice, because of the effective nature of ‘Patriarc’ in controlling weeds.
The disbursement was to 4,478,381 smallholder farmers under the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme.
“In the long run, we want to make sure you will not just be agriculturalists but tech-agriculturalists.”
The communities have resisted the policy, arguing that it was a backroom effort by the Buhari administration to expropriate their ancestral lands to violent marauders.
FCTA, in partnership with Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet), has sensitised Abuja farmers on the 2022 Seasonal Climate Prediction to improve agricultural production.
The Bauchi governor said that indiscriminate sale of lands by local officials led to clashes between cattle breeders and farmers in the state.
Last year, Governor Godwin Obaseki described as senseless the enactment of the anti-open grazing law by southern state governors.
