Nigeria: Reforms to Generate Three Million Jobs - Jonathan

22 January 2013

Abuja — President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has said that the reforms embarked upon by his administration in the agricultural sector would add 20 million metric tonnes of food to domestic supply and create at least 3.5 million new jobs in agriculture and allied industries by 2015.

The president who made this disclosure at the formal opening of a meeting with members of the Eminent Persons Group on the Transformation of Nigeria's Agricultural Sector, said that objective of these structural and policy reforms was to build on Nigeria's "tremendous natural resources"and reverse the decline in the agricultural sector's productivity which followed the discovery of oil, establish domestic self-sufficiency in food and make the country "a major net exporter of food".

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