The Federal Government has initiated the cultivation of 10 million hectares of land for food crop production to arrest the hunger in the country.
It will do this in collaboration with the state governments.
President Bola Tinubu made this known on Sunday morning during his national broadcast occasioned by #EndBadGovernance protests.
He said: ” I have been meeting with our Governors and key Ministers to accelerate food production. We have distributed fertilisers. Our target is to cultivate more than 10 million hectares of land to grow what we eat. The Federal Government will provide all necessary incentives for this initiative, whilst the states provide the land, which will put millions of our people to work and further increase food production. In the past few months, we have also ordered mechanized farming equipment such as tractors and planters, worth billions of Naira from the United States, Belarus, and Brazil. I can confirm to you that the equipment is on the way.”
