Monday 8 July 2013

Agriculture will create 3.5 million jobs for Nigerians in 2015 - Jonathan



 President Goodluck Jonathan has revealed that by 2015, a total of three million and five hundred Nigerians will be gainfully employed by the agriculture sector. He made this disclosure during his presentation at the Rockefeller Foundation Summit in Abuja on Monday.
The president said that, “we set out a bold plan to produce 20 million metric tons of food and create 3.5 million jobs through the agriculture sector by 2015. Today, the results achieved are impressive. Within the past one year, we have succeeded in producing an additional 9.1 million metric tons of food, which is 85% higher than the annual target of 5 million metric tons which we set for the country. To reduce our dependency on rice imports, as the world’s largest importer of rice, we set out to make Nigeria self-sufficient in rice production by 2015. Ambitious as this goal seems, we are well on our way to achieving the target of rice-self-sufficiency. Dry season rice production in 2012/2013 unleashed a rice revolution across ten States in the northern parts of our country. Our farmers produced a record 1.1 million metric tons of paddy rice, which represents one third of the additional rice paddy we need to be self-sufficient in rice by 2015. Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen, we are feeding Nigeria now”.

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