The farmers said thousands of hectares of farmlands wilted due to the prolonged dry spell in Adamawa, Bauchi, Gombe, Yobe and Jigawa States.
The REDD+ is the framework which allows countries, the private sector as well as multilateral funds to pay countries not to cut from their forest.
NABDA says the GMO maize has been certified safe by another federal government agency.
President Muhammadu Buhari regime says Nigerians will have to grow food in their homes to cushion the hardship caused by increasing food prices.
By the end of 2021, the global food import bill should extend beyond $1.75 trillion, marking a 14 per cent increase from 2020.
The coordinator said 350 vulnerable women and youths in each of the participating states would benefit from the grant, known as Rural Poor Stimulus Facility.
Chijioke Osuji, an agro-industry and value chain expert, says Nigeria cannot attain food sufficiency by still engaging in roadside drying of agricultural produce.
Defence minister Bashir Magashi says the rise in the prices of foodstuff portends a new dimension of threat.
The minister said that the resumed smuggling of foreign rice, especially through the land borders, is constituting a serious threat to the nation’s GDP.
The fish sellers say poor fishing equipment, sand dredging and water hyacinth is responsible for the scarcity and high cost of fish.
