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Why Food Prices Remain High – FG by ogododo(op): 2:45pm On Dec 09, 2022
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, says the rising prices of food in Nigeria will come down as more food is produced.

He said this in Abuja on Thursday at the 9th edition of President Muhammadu Buhari Administration’s Scorecard Series (2015 to 2023).

He said the area of self-sufficiency in most basic needs, as part of Buhari’s administration’s scorecard, had been largely downplayed.

Mohammed said though the nation was not fully there yet, the administration had done well since assuming office.


He said before the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine war and the economic uncertainty that had disrupted global supply chains, Buhari had admonished Nigerians to grow what they eat and eat what they grow.

The minister said many neither understood the importance of that admonition nor appreciated its relevance.


He said the consequence of that admonition, which made Nigerians to look inwards and relied less on imports, saved Nigerians from hunger, especially during the prolonged global lockdown when exporting nations shut their ports and borders and nations that relied on imports were struggling to meet their needs.

“Imagine that Nigeria, during that period, had relied on imports to feed itself. In 2020, when the pandemic started, we were just five years into the Buhari administration’s food security programme.

“But we had enough food to eat and enough fertiliser to farm, thanks also to the Presidential Fertiliser Initiative. Even before the pandemic, our borders were closed and food imports were largely banned.”



https://dailytrust.com/why-food-prices-remain-high-fg/
Re: Why Food Prices Remain High – FG by happney65: 2:46pm On Dec 09, 2022
Lmao. grin
Re: Why Food Prices Remain High – FG by nedu666: 2:51pm On Dec 09, 2022
According to the cbn farmers incentive scheme, there are 13 million farmers. Pls does it mean 13 million farmers cannot grow enough food for nigeria. What kind of farming are they doing
Re: Why Food Prices Remain High – FG by Pwettylinda(f): 2:52pm On Dec 09, 2022
cheesy
Re: Why Food Prices Remain High – FG by ogododo(op): 2:54pm On Dec 09, 2022
How many pipu fit go Farm go die fir terrorists and bandits hands.
Re: Why Food Prices Remain High – FG by lhordspy: 3:05pm On Dec 09, 2022
Inflation is everywhere.

Post-Covid era is very messy. We will surely come out of it very soon. I am positive.
Re: Why Food Prices Remain High – FG by Suunnn(f): 4:23pm On Dec 09, 2022
ogododo:
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, says the rising prices of food in Nigeria will come down as more food is produced.

He said this in Abuja on Thursday at the 9th edition of President Muhammadu Buhari Administration’s Scorecard Series (2015 to 2023).

He said the area of self-sufficiency in most basic needs, as part of Buhari’s administration’s scorecard, had been largely downplayed.

Mohammed said though the nation was not fully there yet, the administration had done well since assuming office.


He said before the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine war and the economic uncertainty that had disrupted global supply chains, Buhari had admonished Nigerians to grow what they eat and eat what they grow.

The minister said many neither understood the importance of that admonition nor appreciated its relevance.


He said the consequence of that admonition, which made Nigerians to look inwards and relied less on imports, saved Nigerians from hunger, especially during the prolonged global lockdown when exporting nations shut their ports and borders and nations that relied on imports were struggling to meet their needs.

“Imagine that Nigeria, during that period, had relied on imports to feed itself. In 2020, when the pandemic started, we were just five years into the Buhari administration’s food security programme.

“But we had enough food to eat and enough fertiliser to farm, thanks also to the Presidential Fertiliser Initiative. Even before the pandemic, our borders were closed and food imports were largely banned.”



https://dailytrust.com/why-food-prices-remain-high-fg/
Funny enough
Re: Why Food Prices Remain High – FG by ogododo(op): 12:47pm On Dec 10, 2022
Pale Lai, sofri sofri, Nlpfmod.
Re: Why Food Prices Remain High – FG by Racoon(m):
Thought the lying govt said Nigerian have long attained food sufficiency and causing collapse of the Thailand rice pyramids? So what has happened again?

Fool! Old senseless grandpa of lies, deceit & propaganda. Lai Mohammed has been condemned to a life of lying.
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