A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State, Hon. Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, has lauded President Bola Tinubu’s initiative on food security.
He particularly commended Tinubu’s approval of a 50 percent reduction in the cost of agricultural inputs for farmers for the commencement of dry season farming in the country.
Speaking with newsmen yesterday in Osogbo, Oyintiloye said the subsidy on farm inputs by the president would assist farmers to increase production and boost food availability despite the present high inflation in the country.
The minister of agriculture and food security, Senator Abubakar Kyari, had on November 25, 2023, said the federal government would support 250,000 wheat farmers with a 50 percent input subsidy to cultivate about 250,000 hectares during the dry season.
Oyintiloye said the president’s passion for food security and his quick intervention on fertilisers, improved seeds, mechanisation and grants in both long and short run would yield a desirable result to ensure that food production round the year.
He, however, appealed to the federal government to relate directly with subsistence and large scale farmers, among other stakeholders in agriculture business through their various associations.
Oyintiloye, a member of defunct APC Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), said President Tinubu’s assurance to Nigerians to transform the agricultural sector by making food security the number one priority has started yielding positive results.
