President Goodluck Jonathan has revealed that by 2015, a total of three million and five hundred Nigerians will be gainfully employed by
the agriculture sector. He made this disclosure during his presentation at the
Rockefeller Foundation Summit in Abuja on Monday.
The president said that, “we set out a bold plan to produce
20 million metric tons of food and create 3.5 million jobs through the
agriculture sector by 2015. Today, the results achieved are impressive. Within
the past one year, we have succeeded in producing an additional 9.1 million
metric tons of food, which is 85% higher than the annual target of 5 million
metric tons which we set for the country. To reduce our dependency on rice
imports, as the world’s largest importer of rice, we set out to make Nigeria
self-sufficient in rice production by 2015. Ambitious as this goal seems, we
are well on our way to achieving the target of rice-self-sufficiency. Dry
season rice production in 2012/2013 unleashed a rice revolution across ten
States in the northern parts of our country. Our farmers produced a record 1.1
million metric tons of paddy rice, which represents one third of the additional
rice paddy we need to be self-sufficient in rice by 2015. Distinguished Ladies
and Gentlemen, we are feeding Nigeria now”.
visit http://www.reubenabati.com.ng for the full presentation.
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