The Lagos State Government says discussion about
the development of agricultural commodity value chain with Niger State aimed at
ensuring food security and job creation for the two states and the country has
started.
The government on Wednesday added that the
Lagos-Niger partnership, the second of its kind that the state would be
entering into under the Governor Akinwunmi Ambode administration, would be
directed at boosting the Gross Domestic Product of the two states.
Ambode, who spoke during a courtesy visit by the
Niger State Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Bello, to the Lagos House, Ikeja, said
the state had also entered into partnership with Kebbi State on the development
of the agricultural commodity value chain.
He added that the Lagos-Niger partnership was aimed at producing 70 per cent of
Nigeria’s rice requirements annually, as well as boosting the production of
wheat, groundnut, maize, millet, sorghum and sugarcane, among others.
He said, “This relationship is visionary and it
is also a pointer to the fact that the two states have decided to openly
support the vision of President Muhammadu Buhari.
“We must look inward. We must start to
reintegrate our economy in such a manner that we must not continue to import
what we can produce and we must create a value chain where we have comparative
advantage to do so.”
Bello said the discussion centered on how to
explore the comparative advantage of the two states to the benefit of people in
the country.
He said, “Our discussion centered on agriculture
and how Niger State can partner Lagos State to boost agriculture to the benefit
of both states and Nigeria.
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