Nigeria Under Hunger Threat?

No!

The Minister of Agriculture, Dr Akinwunmi Adesina, said on
Thursday in Abuja that Nigeria is producing enough
food and therefore not under any threat of hunger.

Adesina said this on the sideline of a breakfast meeting with
the Central Bank Governor and some Chief Executive Officers
of Commercial Banks.

A report claimed that there were strong indications of
looming food crisis in the country as fresh indices showed
that more than 65 per cent of 160 million Nigerian population
were food insecure. According to the report, the indices also revealed that more
than 1.4 million children in northern Nigeria were at risk of
severe malnutrition in 2013, while the country was losing
estimated N1 billion on contraband rice on daily basis.
The report attributed the situation to the activities of the Boko
Haram insurgency, the military crackdown and the state of
emergency in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states.

"The information that there would be hunger in Nigeria is
mischievous and it is not correct.
"We are producing enough food today in this country; we have
reduced our food import bill by N857 billion which shows you
that agriculture is working,'' Adesina said.
He said that the country produced 1.1 million metric tonnes of
rice alone in the last dry season and more would be produced
this year.

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