Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh, on Tuesday, february 9, said Nigeria had been importing dairy products worth over $1.3billion yearly.
Ogbeh, who spoke during a courtesy visit to Kano State Governor Umar Abdullahi Ganduje, said the current economic situation, money expended on importation ought to be earned by hard working Nigerian farmers and not countries where the dairy products were being imported from.
He said:“Excessive importation has been the major cause of the disaster in which Nigeria presently finds itself. We were busy importing what we are producing locally and allowing our own product to waste, definitely something is wrong and we need to correct it.”
Now it is time for us to think because when there were too much money from oil we couldn’t think and now that the oil sector is facing a lt of trouble it is better for us to have a rethink and invest in agriculture which is the only way out for the country.”
