Climate change is having effect on agricultural activities and threatening food security of the country, agricultural expert from the Federal University of Technology (FUT Minna), Dr. Haruna Ibrahim, has said.
The university lecturer and agricultural scientist stated this in a presentation Thursday at a stakeholders meeting in Minna organised by the National Hydro Electric Power Producing Areas Development Commission (N-HYPPADEC).
He stated that climate resilience farming models have to be scaled up to intervene across Niger state and the entire country.
He said, “Traditional farmers are the largest contributors to the supply of food stuff in the Niger state and the entire country. They have been in the business from birth and yet their performance is not yielding any result due to the effect of climate change on aqgriculture activities.”
Also speaking on sustainable agriculture , food output and use of modern technologies, Professor Abdullahi Muhammad El- Okene of the Ahmadu Bello University University, (ABU ), Zaria, argued that the use of mechanised farming will encourage youth to venture into agriculture and become self reliant, adding that this will eventually boost the country’s economy.
In an opening remark, the managing director of the National Hydro Electric Power Producing Areas Development Commission (N-HYPPADEC), Alhaji Abubakar Sadiq Yelwa assured that the commission is in partnership with the federal ministry of agriculture and governments of benefitting states to improve agriculture by the use of modern technologies to achieve food security.
