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EKO HOT BLOG reports that what President Muhammadu Buhari intends to prioritize after his term is over has been made public.
He disclosed that he had made the decision to return to the farmland that his ancestors had left for him in Daura in order to concentrate on farming.
Speaking to the elected local government council chairmen from Katsina State on Friday in Daura, the president remarked this.
He stated that his administration had taken the step of closing the land borders for years to encourage the consumption of local products from the nation’s farmers
He praised the farmers for the record production of rice and other food commodities and expressed satisfaction that the agricultural policies of the administration were working to good effect
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I have a good understanding of the country and its people. That is why we instituted those agricultural policies. I said we must grow what we eat and eat what we grow.
This is a country that was once dependent on foreign rice. We closed the border to foreign rice. I said why can’t we eat Nigerian rice, and with the policies put in place, Nigerians are eating homegrown rice,” he said in a statement issued by his spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu.
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