Nigeria: Year 2013 - the Struggle to Stem Indiscriminate Food Importation

31 December 2013

With Nigerians' growing disdain for local goods, the federal government in 2013 made moves through its agriculture transformation programme to retrieve the nation's agricultural economy from servitude to other countries. Crusoe Osagie writes on opposing reactions to the food security question

Taming Import Addiction In 2013 the Nigerian agricultural sector witnessed efforts geared towards weaning the nation from food items for which it does not necessarily need and which it does not possess comparative and competitive advantage.

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