As Nigeria joined the rest of the world to celebrate the 2025 World Food Day on Thursday, the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security has said in response to the numerous challenges faced by smallholder farmers, it has developed short-term plans to make farm inputs more accessible and affordable even as it attributed the fall in the prices of Foodstuffs to increase in local production.
Speaking at a press conference as part of activities to mark the day with the thene; “the theme “Hand in Hand for Better Foods and a Better Future” after the Sensitization Walk, the Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Security, Sen. Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, said in line with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s promise to ease economic hardship, the ministry is supporting smallholder farmers in the all the states of the federation and FCT with vital farm implements and inputs.