FCTA Reaffirms Determination To Sustain Food Security

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has reaffirmed its determination to sustain the tempo of its support programmes to enhance food security in the territory.

Mandate secretary of agriculture and rural development secretariat, Mallam Abubakar Ibrahim, made this known while reacting to the October 2022 cycle of Cadre Harmonise (CH) Food and Nutrition Security analysis, a report which indicated a significant reduction of over 30 percent in the population of food in households from about 349,876 in October 2021 to 233,233 as at November 2022.

Ibrahim attributed the achievement to the programmes of the Agriculture and Rural Development ministry supported by the Minister of State FCT, Dr. Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu who has ensured that implementation of progrmmes was tailored in line with President Muhammadu Buhari’s agenda of revitalising the agricultural sector.

“We will not be carried away by the encouraging report, and I want to assure you that under the able guidance of the  Minister of FCT, Muhammad Musa Bello, and Minister of State Dr. Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu, the Secretariat will redouble its efforts to deliver on its mandate of repositioning agricultural sector.

“As you are aware, a lot is happening in the livestock sector as well as crop production. We have concluded plans to roll out massive support to boost dry season farming, while efforts that we are making to open up the Agricultural landscape and attract complimentary support from the private sector and donor agencies will be sustained.

“We will equally be giving greater attention to the issues of minimising post-harvest losses due to poor storage technologies, environmental factors as well as pest infestation,” he said.