Food Security: KWSG Meets Stakeholders, State Working Committee

The Kwara State Government on wednesday met with the Stakeholders and State Working Committee on Food Security in the State.

The meeting is part of the move to deliberate on the strategy to improve the food production, strengthening the capacity of farmers and development of the agricultural sector of the State.

The Kwara State Governor, Mallam AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq while addressing the committee said the essence of the State Working Committee on food security is to bolster agricultural productivity as well as food security of the State.
The Governor, who was represented by his Deputy, Mr. Kayode Alabi stressed the responsibilities of the committee to formulate policies, capacity building, research and innovation, collaborations and partnership and also, monitoring and evaluation of farmers.

He further encouraged the Committee to embrace all the responsibilities wholeheartedly with a view to transform the challenges into opportunities for a prosperous and food secured State.

In her remarks, the State Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Mrs. Oloruntoyosi Thomas explained that the National Agric Growth Scheme (NAGS) is to build the resilience of the small scale holder farmers through increase access to inputs and increase food and nutrition security.
"The food security working committee has been designed for proper execution of objective of NAGS-AP. NAGS- AP is a project of African Development Bank and they have put together a good model and identified stakeholders such as input partners, the state Government, Agro dealers and farmers". 

"All these partners have been engaged one way or the other, therefore our main role is to select real farmers for the program that will properly sensitized the farmers on the model in place" the Commissioner stressed.

According to her, Kwara State is considered for maize, rice and cassava.

"The state has been given 3600 hectares, as the committee our role is to monitor and ensure the things are done according to the guidelines by African Development Bank (AfDB)". 
Mrs Thomas further stressed that the selection of the real farmers will ensure farmers are giving back to the government what they suppose to give government upon harvest.

In his contribution, the representative of the traditional council, Alhaji Dr. Abdullahi Aliyu, who is also the Etsu of Tsaragi expressed his delight with the kind of the programme adding that most of the traditional rulers are farmers and will lead by example.
He further assured that traditional rulers would support the state government efforts in reducing unemployment among the youth by ensuring the success of the programme in the State.

Oladipo Temple Olushola 
Asst. Press Secretary 
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

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