The FCT Administration has allayed the fears of farmers in the nation’s capital and urged them to go about the business of growing food for the residents of the Territory as measures are being taken to ensure their safety.
This assurance was given by the FCTA’s Secretary for Agriculture and Rural Development, Mallam Abubakar Ibrahim following the FCTA Executive Committee meeting which was held on Monday, 1st August 2022 and chaired by the FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello.
The Secretary who made a presentation to the Committee on the activities of the Agriculture Secretariat said that the issue of food security was being taken seriously by the FCT Administration.
Mallam Ibrahim also called on residents to imbibe the mantra of President Muhammadu Buhari urging Nigerians to eat what they grow and grow what they eat by embracing greenhouse farming which can be established at the backyards of most homes.
He revealed that his Secretariat has trained over 600 women and youths on greenhouse farming at the Gwagwalada demonstration farm of the Secretariat and urged all who desired to embrace greenhouse farming to go there or to the Agricultural Development Programme (ADP) office also located in Gwagwalada for guidance and technical advice.
