Browsing: Self-Sufficiency

Olusanya who made this known on Sunday at a ministerial press briefing in commemoration of the second year anniversary of the State Government noted that the State Government would continue to treat agriculture as a combination of business and development platform.

The Federal Government says the country is closer to attaining self-sufficiency in rice owing to the border drill that has drastically reduced smuggling and catalysed rice production across the country.

Speaking during an extraordinary candid public conversation at the Financial Times 4th Annual Africa Summit at Claridges in London, moderated by the Editor-in-Chief of Times, Lionel Barber, Dangote said the strategy has worked and is working and would urged other African nations to do same to reduce the Continent’s import.