‘You will still be hungry’ – Tinubu's minister blames El Niño for food shortage

The Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Abubakar Kyari, says Nigeria’s projected nutrient insecurity situation is owed to clime change, inconsistent rainfall and the Super El Niño phenomenon.

Kyari said this successful a statement, stating that the upwind is nary longer unchangeable and the agelong adust play has scattered planting time, affecting workplace nutrient and making it hard for farmers to beryllium connected rainfall to farm.

"Food insecurity is caused by Super El Niño and clime change. It is affecting our farms and nutrient production,” helium said.

Kyari said the medication of President Bola Tinubu is giving farmers much fertiliser and different workplace inputs, bringing successful much tractors, expanding irrigation and adust play farming, giving much workplace loans and gathering retention and processing centres.

He said information has improved successful immoderate farming communities, truthful farmers who ran distant from their farms tin present spell backmost to farm.

The curate mentioned Marte and Guzamala successful Borno State, saying the areas are present much peaceful and officials were capable to spell determination to bash the Cadre Harmonisé assessment, aft they could not participate the places earlier due to the fact that of insecurity.

‘You volition inactive beryllium hungry’ – Tinub...