{"id":43331,"date":"2022-06-28T13:32:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T13:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/?p=43331"},"modified":"2022-06-28T13:32:46","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T13:32:46","slug":"food-security-fg-prioritising-rice-cassava-yam-says-agric-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/food-security-fg-prioritising-rice-cassava-yam-says-agric-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Security: FG Prioritising Rice, Cassava, Yam Says Agric Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Mohammad Abubakar, has stated that rice, cassava and yam are among the top priority crops for the attainment of food security in Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abubakar, stated this when he received the delegation led by the Convener of the proposed Nigeria Oil Palm Summit, Mr. Fatai Afolabi in his office in Abuja.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said: \u201cRice, Cassava and Yam are top priorities in the agricultural sector. I am urging stakeholders to use the summit to think, plan ahead and develop a policy that would put Nigeria back on track.\u201d &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister tasked stakeholders in the oil palm sub sector on the need to reposition Nigeria to its rightful position of exporting to other nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abubakar noted that \u201cin the early 60s Nigeria\u2019s agriculture sector was the major source of revenue, but today the country is struggling to be a big agricultural nation,\u201d adding that it is not too late for Nigeria to reposition itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He pointed out that it is worrisome that Malaysia came to Nigeria some years back to get oil palm seedlings and have today became the number one producers of oil palm in the world while Nigeria is ranked the 5th position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added: \u201cNot just proposing to have a summit but a lot of thinking and planning must be carried out to avoid past mistakes,\u201d and pledged to \u201cwork with any organisation to achieve the economic diversification policy of the present administration.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He commended the stakeholders for their efforts towards repositioning Nigeria oil palm, assuring that the ministry would collaborate and give necessary assistance to ensure oil palm sub sector strives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his remarks, Afolabi pointed out that the importance of oil palm in Nigeria could not be over emphasised, adding that it was a means of livelihood, fuel and raw materials for industries.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisdaylive.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/28\/food-security-fg-prioritising-rice-cassava-yam-says-agric-minister\/\">source<\/a><\/p>\n\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-43331\" data-postid=\"43331\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-43331 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Mohammad Abubakar, has stated that rice, cassava and yam are among the top priority crops for the attainment of food security in Nigeria. Abubakar, stated this when he received the delegation led by the Convener of the proposed Nigeria Oil Palm Summit, Mr. Fatai Afolabi in his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":43314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[701],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-43331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","tag-nigeria","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Food Security: FG Prioritising Rice, Cassava, Yam Says Agric Minister - The Freezone Channel<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/food-security-fg-prioritising-rice-cassava-yam-says-agric-minister\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Food Security: FG Prioritising Rice, Cassava, Yam Says Agric Minister - The Freezone Channel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Mohammad Abubakar, has stated that rice, cassava and yam are among the top priority crops for the attainment of food security in Nigeria. Abubakar, stated this when he received the delegation led by the Convener of the proposed Nigeria Oil Palm Summit, Mr. Fatai Afolabi in his [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/food-security-fg-prioritising-rice-cassava-yam-says-agric-minister\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Freezone Channel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-06-28T13:32:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-06-28T13:32:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Dr-Mohammed-Abubakar-e1637646216460.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"486\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"399\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"The Freezone Channel\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"The Freezone Channel\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/food-security-fg-prioritising-rice-cassava-yam-says-agric-minister\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/food-security-fg-prioritising-rice-cassava-yam-says-agric-minister\/\",\"name\":\"Food Security: FG Prioritising Rice, Cassava, Yam Says Agric Minister - The Freezone Channel\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/food-security-fg-prioritising-rice-cassava-yam-says-agric-minister\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/food-security-fg-prioritising-rice-cassava-yam-says-agric-minister\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Dr-Mohammed-Abubakar-e1637646216460.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-06-28T13:32:40+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-06-28T13:32:46+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/#\/schema\/person\/3a1d344082f3ae7b041dba05727d20cf\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/food-security-fg-prioritising-rice-cassava-yam-says-agric-minister\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/food-security-fg-prioritising-rice-cassava-yam-says-agric-minister\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/food-security-fg-prioritising-rice-cassava-yam-says-agric-minister\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Dr-Mohammed-Abubakar-e1637646216460.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Dr-Mohammed-Abubakar-e1637646216460.jpg\",\"width\":486,\"height\":399},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/food-security-fg-prioritising-rice-cassava-yam-says-agric-minister\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Food Security: FG Prioritising Rice, Cassava, Yam Says Agric Minister\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/\",\"name\":\"The Freezone Channel\",\"description\":\"The Freezone Channel\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/#\/schema\/person\/3a1d344082f3ae7b041dba05727d20cf\",\"name\":\"The Freezone Channel\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/04a1708b00f2c2330ce922e6cb56a4331937beae4b7f6d1ed5c054222076f721?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/04a1708b00f2c2330ce922e6cb56a4331937beae4b7f6d1ed5c054222076f721?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"The Freezone Channel\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/author\/okolilovethcyahoo-com\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Food Security: FG Prioritising Rice, Cassava, Yam Says Agric Minister - The Freezone Channel","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/food-security-fg-prioritising-rice-cassava-yam-says-agric-minister\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Food Security: FG Prioritising Rice, Cassava, Yam Says Agric Minister - The Freezone Channel","og_description":"The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Mohammad Abubakar, has stated that rice, cassava and yam are among the top priority crops for the attainment of food security in Nigeria. Abubakar, stated this when he received the delegation led by the Convener of the proposed Nigeria Oil Palm Summit, Mr. Fatai Afolabi in his [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/food-security-fg-prioritising-rice-cassava-yam-says-agric-minister\/","og_site_name":"The Freezone Channel","article_published_time":"2022-06-28T13:32:40+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-06-28T13:32:46+00:00","og_image":[{"width":486,"height":399,"url":"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Dr-Mohammed-Abubakar-e1637646216460.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"The Freezone Channel","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"The Freezone Channel","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/food-security-fg-prioritising-rice-cassava-yam-says-agric-minister\/","url":"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/food-security-fg-prioritising-rice-cassava-yam-says-agric-minister\/","name":"Food Security: FG Prioritising Rice, Cassava, Yam Says Agric Minister - The Freezone Channel","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/food-security-fg-prioritising-rice-cassava-yam-says-agric-minister\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/food-security-fg-prioritising-rice-cassava-yam-says-agric-minister\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Dr-Mohammed-Abubakar-e1637646216460.jpg","datePublished":"2022-06-28T13:32:40+00:00","dateModified":"2022-06-28T13:32:46+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/#\/schema\/person\/3a1d344082f3ae7b041dba05727d20cf"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/food-security-fg-prioritising-rice-cassava-yam-says-agric-minister\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/food-security-fg-prioritising-rice-cassava-yam-says-agric-minister\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/food-security-fg-prioritising-rice-cassava-yam-says-agric-minister\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Dr-Mohammed-Abubakar-e1637646216460.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Dr-Mohammed-Abubakar-e1637646216460.jpg","width":486,"height":399},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/food-security-fg-prioritising-rice-cassava-yam-says-agric-minister\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Food Security: FG Prioritising Rice, Cassava, Yam Says Agric Minister"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/#website","url":"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/","name":"The Freezone Channel","description":"The Freezone Channel","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/#\/schema\/person\/3a1d344082f3ae7b041dba05727d20cf","name":"The Freezone Channel","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/04a1708b00f2c2330ce922e6cb56a4331937beae4b7f6d1ed5c054222076f721?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/04a1708b00f2c2330ce922e6cb56a4331937beae4b7f6d1ed5c054222076f721?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"The Freezone Channel"},"url":"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/author\/okolilovethcyahoo-com\/"}]}},"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}