See how Dry season farming will reduce food insecurity
Most small-scale farmers in Nigeria rely on rainfed cultivation and do not have access to adequate water sources to engage in large-scale dry season production, leading to local shortages of important crops and high market prices in the dry season due to the lack of technique to cultivate them when the weather condition becomes harsh.
The unpredictability of rainfall patterns and amount in northern Nigeria implies the need for farmers to engage in dry-season farming to boost their incomes.
With the growing population of the country and the realisation that importation of any major food item will continually drain the country’s external reserves, export its jobs to countries where those food items are produced and the need to be food-secure, President Muhammadu Buhari established a National Food Security Council to address challenges in the country’s food and agriculture sectors.
So, in 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari flagged off the dry season farming campaign in Kebbi State with active support from the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN’s N20 billion Anchor Borrowers’ Programme, ABP
Ever since then, the CBN has supported hundreds of farmers through the ABP, providing them with loans to initiate dry season farming after they must have learned the practice. As of January 2021, The Central Bank of Nigeria has disbursed N554.61 billion to 2, 849,490 farmers to boost food security under its Anchor Borrowers’ Programme beginning from 2015.
In a communique issued in Abuja recently, Mr Godwin Emefiele, the CBN governor explained that out of the amount, N61.02 billion was disbursed to 353,370 dry season farmer’s
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