Nigeria has just joined 166 countries towards boosting agricultural production, with the approval of the signing of “Plant Genetic Resource for Food and Agriculture.”
The signing was approved by the Federal Executive Council (FEC), at its meeting today, January 20, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Briefing newsmen shortly after the meeting at the presidential villa, Abuja, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Sabo Nanono said that the import of the treaty is for the advancement and enhancement of agricultural resource base of the member countries.
“Nigeria has signed the treaty for a long time but it is only today that the FEC approved the ratification. We will now become full member of this treaty and it will enhance training and research of our agricultural scientists, agricultural fractionists and so on and so forth.
“In short, the entire treaty is meant to boost agricultural production in the country as it affects other countries, 167 of them.”
This was even as FEC approved the sum of N1. 4 billion for the completion of the calabar free trade zone area.
Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Niyi Adebayo confirmed the development, saying that it followed a memo he presented for the award of contract for the upgrade of the electricity component of the Calabar Free Trade Zone Area.
“The contract was initially awarded in 2018 to upgrade the electrical facility in the free trade zone area and it was not completed.”
