Minister of Agriculture, Audu Ogbeh, has said that Nigeria’s high interest rates is partly responsible for the high cost of locally produced rice as against the imported ones.
Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, on Tuesday in Abuja at the inauguration of new Governing Councils of 23 Federal Universities, announced the federal government's decision to move Universities of Agriculture from the Ministry of Education to that of Agriculture.
Director General of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation, FAO, Jose da Silva, on Friday said that in Nigeria alone, about $191 million is required for over 2.5 million people that have been rendered food-insecure as a result of the Boko Haram crisis.
The federal government has adopted measures aimed at reducing the price offood items in the country; chief of which would be the deployment of trains in transportation of farm products.
The Federal Ministry of Agriculture has said that government is considering the idea of placing a ban on the importation of foreign tomato pastes into the country.
Minister of Agriculture and Rural development, Audu Ogbeh, has dismissed news reports quoting him as saying ‘Nigerians eat too much rice, that’s why it is expensive’.
