The Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, has urged the people of Bayelsa State to get seriously involved in agriculture so that hunger would totally be eradicated in the state and the nation at large.
He further described the situation where about $60 billion was used to import food yearly as unacceptable.
The Minister disclosed the plan of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) towards investing about N500 million into agriculture and promised to extend the ministry’s agricultural programmes to the people of Bayelsa.
The State Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State, Chief Timipa Orurinugha stated that the EXCO was in Abuja to show their solidarity to the minister and to encourage him.
