Food Security In Nigeria.

 What is food security? Well, in attempting to answer this question, two keywords stand out here - food and security.

Food, per the dictionary, is any substance that individuals or animals eat or drink to remain alive.

Rice, beans, millet, fish, meat, water, dairy products, vegetables, fruits, alcohol, wine, and soft drinks are a number of the foods and drinks we all know.

Security, on the opposite hand, is about protection and freedom from threats, violence, danger, worries, bloodbath, or maybe death. So, in my very own words, food security is essentially about having food to eat together with your family.

Let us zero in on Nigeria and appearance at some statistics on agricultural transformation. Nigeria, as you recognize has an estimated population of about 150 million people from 774 regime areas and 36 states and Abuja. Good market, if you request from me.

But, about 80% of people in Nigerians sleep in agricultural areas. These citizens are mostly old, uneducated peasant farmers with crude, obsolete tools, trying to stay their souls and body together.

On the opposite hand of the identical coin, there are successful farmers in major cities across the countries, who are into modern, mechanized large-scale farming.

According to Canvest Nigeria Limited, these farmers in most cases export their farm products to developed countries just like u. s. of America, UK, among other countries to earn foreign currencies. Little of those products are left for local consumption.

So, with about 98.3 million hectares of the landmass in Nigeria, only 73.7millionn, representing but 50% are under cultivation when 80% of funds provided by the Nigerian government can not be accessed by the poor, old, uneducated farmers in the agricultural areas.

Yet, we are preaching the gospel of food security. it's the rich and well-connected successful farmers that get to access the funds.

No wonder with the N18, 000, some workers cannot feed themselves with their salaries for 2 weeks.

Research has shown that within the last ten years, our beloved country has spent quite $2 billion importing all forms of foods and drinks ranging from rice, bean, meat, fish, dairy products, and wheat from other countries to Nigeria.

So, what I'm driving here is sole that it's the business of the state to form an enabling environment for farmers, success, and peasants to control to feed the citizens.

Truth is that each one over the planet, the government can't run businesses and succeed said "Canvest Nigeria Limited".

The serious business of ensuring that food and drinks are available to the citizen of any country should be left entirely within the hands of personal investors, with the government providing the funds, power supply, water, fertilizers, tools, and seedlings, among other items.