My Agenda on Food Security
- Prevent and manage infectious diseases
- Mechanised agriculture for improvements in agricultural productivity aimed at
small-scale farmers to benefit the rural poor first
- Develop organized markets for agricultural products
- Prevent emergence of structural hindrances to food security
- Improve research/development on agriculture
- Integrated farmers scheme to empower farmers for improved production
- Make more government land available for agriculture
- Grooming of young generation for possibility of succeeding the older generation
of farmers
- Accelerated livestock scheme
- Reduce financial burden with Education and Health Expenses
- Synchronise with federal agricultural strategies to boost food production
- Encourage inter-state food trade to encourage economic growth and poverty
reduction
- Ensuring that people, and especially children, receive food in emergency
situations
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We are making tractors sufficiently available for farmers all over the state to
hire and make cultivation of farmland less rigorous, mechanised, and not effort
driven |
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Food Security Agenda
We will ensure that Akwa Ibom people at all times have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food
to maintain a healthy and active life. We will guard against the effects of
malnutrition by nutritionally ensuring adequate food intake in children to
prevent stunted growth and eradicate extreme poverty to improve food consumption
levels.
We will elevate rural development, including sustainable agricultural, fishery
and forestry production and management of natural resources. Helping people
improve their farms and productivity and ensure that farmlands are secured from
pollution with top priority of government to guarantee an increase in current
levels of production for future food needs.
Agricultural sector reforms will aggressively enable us adopt proactive measures to lessen dependence on oil derivation through massive agricultural development and massive statewide agricultural schemes which will include mechanised agriculture to leverage technology, aggressive environmental security policies, Integrated farmers scheme to empower farmers for improved production, constructing food and grain silos to improve all year availability through drying, storing, processing, transporting and manage challenges of fluctuation in food supply and improving roads so that food can be moved to where it is needed or where it can be sold, and accelerated livestock scheme.
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Mechanisation is key to increased productivity in the agricultural sector |
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Elaborate cultivation of rice and oil palm are paramount in our agricultural
strategies |
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Ambassador Donald McConnell (U. S. A.) supports with a palm oil mill in Akwa
Ibom State |
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Farming gets attractive again as youths are empowered through the Integrated
Farmers Scheme
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