Kaduna State Government has embarked on policy reforms in the agric sector to scale up stakeholders’ participation in the production, processing, and marketing of products.
Mrs. Halima Lawal, Commissioner for Agriculture stated this at a one-day stakeholder meeting to review the State Agricultural Development Policy through collaboration with Alliance for Green Revolution for Africa (AGRA) with support from Synergos Nigeria.
Lawal said it was part of the state government’s strive towards ensuring a stable policy for the agricultural sector:
“It is also in the bid to support the Governor’s transformation drive through a consultative engagement of all stakeholders in the sector.
“This can only be achieved if we do a strategic involvement of everybody in dialogue. That is why we need everybody to participate and make a contribution, if we do that we will be sure of an inclusive policy for gender and youth inclusion, food security through increased productivity.
“This will be necessary to involve both the private and public sectors to take ownership of the process and to remind you that Kaduna state has limitless potentials in agriculture,“ she said.
According to her, the interactions will help us update our plan because we actually have an agricultural plan, but it is outdated it does not take into consideration the present realities of our time, population, climate change, and endemic diseases.
