Adebayo Sangobiyi, Shonga Farm Holdings Limited general manager, thinks that Nigeria can achieve national food security and earn about N5trillion foreign exchange from agricultural exports as well as create massive employment with the adoption of commercial agriculture.
On Thursday, August 20, Sangobiyi said that it was imperative for the country to have a well-articulated and strategic agricultural master plan that should be strictly implemented to boost the nation’s transformation in the sector.
The media source reports that the general manager canvassed the adoption of the Shonga Farm model as a national agricultural strategy, because such a measure could make Nigeria compare favourably with the United States and the United Kingdom in agricultural production and exports.
Sangobiyi said: “If we face agriculture squarely, there will be industrialisation; with that, the economy will be transformed. Even at the national level, the Gross Domestic Product will improve and we will do less of importation.Shonga Farms had intensified its expansion programme with the aim of reducing the food import dependency of Nigeria. The concept of the farm was for them to understudy the white farmers, adding that by the time they are big enough they should buy them.”
He further claimed that his intention is to start the Alapa project with the indigenes.
The official believes that Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed has already started it by selecting 10 farmers from each of the 16 local government areas of the state.
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