Food security: FG flags off agric project in A’Ibom, Targets 500,000 farmers in S’South Region

Acting on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's mandate on food security to cultivate 500,000 hectares of land, promote year-round farming, and encourage consumption of locally grown foods, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Community Engagement, South-South, Hon. Gift Johnbull, has flagged off “Project Earn from the soil” and domestication of the Women Economic Empowerment (WEE) Policy in Akwa Ibom state.

The agriculture initiative aims to directly benefit 500,000 smallholder farmers, fisherfolk, agribusinesses, and coastal communities in the South-South region, with indirect benefits to 1,000,000 household families.


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In her address, the SSA to the president on Community Engagement South-South, Hon. Gift Johnbull, while flagging off the project, revealed that the project will boost food security and create new generation of women agripreneurs, with the ultimate goal of making Akwa Ibom a leader in agricultural production not just in Nigeria, but across West Africa.

“The empowerment of women is not just a goal but a responsibility,” she stated. “It is a responsibility that we must all share—government, private sector, civil society, and the community at large. By working together, we can create an environment where women are no longer just participants in the economy but leaders and innovators who drive growth and development.”

According to her, the WEE Policy, is a comprehensive blueprint aimed at transforming the lives of women in Akwa Ibom by enhancing their access to finance, agriculture, education, entrepreneurship, and leadership opportunities. The policy is expected to lay the foundation for sustainable, inclusive development across the state.

Over 32 cooperative have been registered free across 31 local governments of the state cutting across six values chain of agriculture. Some of the beneficiaries expressed gratitude to president Tinubu’s support to the state.

The Senior Special Assistant also emphasized the importance of collaboration in achieving the objectives of the WEE Policy and the “Earn From The Soil” project. She urged all stakeholders to harness the power of the state’s land, resources, and people to create a thriving, equitable, and prosperous Akwa Ibom that aligns with President Tinubu’s renewed hope agenda on food security.

The First Lady of Akwa Ibom state, Patience Umo Eno, represented by the Commissioner for women affairs, Akwa Ibom state, Dr. Ini Adiakpan, said that the project Earn from the soil aligns with the agenda of the state's leadership, particularly the focus on agriculture.

"This project is in line with His Excellency's agenda, which is centered on agriculture. We are confident that this endeavor will empower our women and drive the economic growth of our state," she stated.

The Honourable Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Akwa Ibom State, Offiong Offor, in her goodwill massage, expressed the state government’s commitment to providing the necessary resources and support to ensure the project’s long-term sustainability.

She encouraged farmers, both women and men, to organize into cooperative groups.

Other representatives from Nexim, Zenith Bank, the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), UN Women, and various other organizations committed to advancing the economic prospects of women in the state.

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What Le the real farmers are under the sun and rain on the bush, the "gardeners" with fixed nails and eyelashes, golden watch and shining shoes are here signing cheques. And someone is telling me that we would have food sufficient to feed the teeming populace.

No way! It doesn't work that way

That's good

Nice one.

Ehen?
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Make I go collect like 5plots of land use am build instead

This is the best way to go , stop putting your eggs in one basket, how can a country as big as Nigeria wait for the north or north central before it can feed herself ? We need all the states of the federation to begin producing agric commodities at exponential rate if they can do this, food inflation will fall , export earnings will rise , IGR of most states will also balance out. Our governors should stop being lazy !

May our politicians allow it to work in years to come.

Nice one...

God bless the good people of Southsouth and Southwest

Southsouth and Southwest will always remain one...

God bless Israel for doing the lord's work

Audio - trying to mobilize south South for 2027. 80,% of people there are politicians trying to eark from the National Cake.

mcfestgee:
Audio - trying to mobilize south South for 2027. 80,% of people there are politicians trying to eark from the National Cake.

Okoro rest

What I see here are scammers

No be talk we go chop una fit really do am if yes show us and stop telling us

Good

If this is true, then it's commendable.

Northerners are busy making the farming environment hostile so shifting to another territory is a nice move.

Nigeria government and unrealistic targets, they will just sit down and be quoting numbers.

500,000 farmers kill dem dere

When rainy season is almost gone? Abi Na dry season and irrigation they want to use?

Those people there,are they farmers

See farmers faces

Noise pollution

Na waoh.
The way government programmes like this are always executed or implemented and real farmers like me don't even get to know and benefit from it is baffling. You only get to hear that so so number of farmers were empowered or see pictures like this one without hearing about the event before hand. Other fellow farmers you know of will also be as surprised as you are.

I wonder who these special farmers really are.

I was running to open the thread hoping to see agriculture equipments and machineries, I ended up seeing the faces of the same criminals and embezzlers doing jamboree as usual.
If you hear the amount of money used in organizing this charade eeh.
Enemies of the same people they rule

okezuoemmanue:
What I see here are scammers

I agree with you 💯. So they are flagging off an agricultural project inside an air conditioned auditorium. They can't deceive us. I bet the so-called agricultural project starts and ends inside that auditorium. It's so sad that serious matters have become show business in Nigeria.

More like targeting 500,000 APC supporters.


Bring down price of fertilizer.

Why should farming benefits be targeted to people.


Targeted programs up and down.

The economy is still in shambles.

Help parents who are working, they will reply that they provided student loans.

Help small businesses they will tell you that they have provided monie trader.

Increase Civil servant wages, they will tell you that they have provided rice.

Help put the economy to work, they will tell you to hold your governors responsible.

I have never seen such height of confusion.

I don't know AkwaIbomites to be farmers.