The Federal Government has urged farmers to deepen collaborations that would strengthen the agricultural sector and diversify the nation’s economy. The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Mohammad Abubakar, made the appeal in Abuja during the National Farmers Day Celebration. The event was themed: “Farmers Development: A panacea to Nigeria’s economic impasse“.
“The economy was depending on oil and gas for our foreign exchange and development until the inception of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration, who initiated agriculture as the way forward for Nigeria. Earlier, Dr Farouk Mudi, the National President, of the All Farmers Association of Nigeria , said that the essence of the Farmers Day Celebration is a day that avails agricultural stakeholders, especially agro-allied industries the opportunity to meet each other.
“The National Farmer’s Day is an international annual event that offers much-deserved praise to the hard-working farmers across nations.