Nigeria: My Administration's Target Is Self Sufficiency in Food - Buhari

1 March 2018

Abuja — President Muhammadu Buhari, Thursday in Abuja declared that the target of his administration was to ensure that it was self-sufficiency in food production and consumption, so as to radically cut down on imports of agricultural products that depleted the country's foreign reserve in the past.

President Buhari who stated this while receiving Letter of Credence from the High Commissioner of Republic of Singapore to Nigeria, Mr. Lim Sim Seng, at the State House, Abuja, said the era of high import bills on food was fast becoming a thing of the past with growing investments in the agricultural sector, favourable weather and collective will of Nigerians to start feeding themselves, and exporting products.

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