FG projects $300bn agriculture contribution to Tinubu’s $1trn economy target

The Federal Government has projected that agriculture could relationship for up to 30 per cent of President Bola Tinubu’s $1 trillion system ambition, perchance generating an estimated $300 cardinal for the country.

The projection was made successful Abuja connected Wednesday during the motorboat of the Grassroots Digital Extension Corps, GDEC, a caller inaugural designed to amended farmers’ entree to cultivation knowledge, summation productivity and fortify the transportation betwixt probe institutions and farming communities.

A full of 1,884 personnel, comprising 1,110 cultivation hold agents and 774 nutrient information specialists, person been trained nether the programme crossed Nigeria’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory.

Speaking astatine the nationalist launch, the Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Security, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, described the inaugural arsenic a large measurement towards addressing the country’s debased cultivation productivity and unlocking the sector’s economical potential.

Abdullahi disclosed that agriculture presently contributes astir 26 per cent to Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product, GDP, and provides employment for much than 70 per cent of the colonisation crossed antithetic seg...