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The Minister of State for Agriculture, Aliyu Sabi, has said the country cannot depend solely on rain-fed agricultural practices to achieve sustainable food production.

The minister said this while speaking on Monday on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme.

“We realised that in the past years, we have not been taking our dry season farming seriously, and we cannot just depend on rain-fed agriculture and be food secure,” the minister said.

The minister explained that the government is addressing these concerns by organising programmes to boost food production in the country all year round.

“We are currently having in the works a lot of the mechanisation programmes, such as the greener hope mechanisation programme, the greener imperative mechanisation programme, “the minister said, adding that the government intends to bring on board more than 2000 tractors in the first instance, and 10,000 subsequently.

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