Senator predicts food shortage

FOLLOWING the heightened insecurity situation and flooding in the country, the Chairman Board of Trustee, National Agricultural Foundation of Nigeria (NAFN), Senator Abdullahi Adamu, has predicted food shortage next year.

Adamu who lamented that the nation’s agricultural sector had been the worst hit due to insecurity and natural disaster, suggested that government needed to embark on massive sensitisation of farmers on dry season farming through irrigation method to avert shortage of food in the country

The senator who stated this while briefing journalists in Abuja on the activities of the sixth edition of the National Agricultural Show, said that to reduce the hunger menace that may face the nation, there was need for government to increase effort in food storage and preservation, and also embark on emergency farming.

Source: Guardian

The guy maybe right oooo, With over 16 states affected by serious flood, Farm lands have been seriously affected. Food scarcity and price hike will be sure to hit the soociety by december and next year.

You won't believe in delta state only,53,000 people were displaced in 11 communities.
You will never know that kind of number exists in those villages.