Govt targets 10m hectares to spice up meals manufacturing — Customs boss Adeniyi

The Comptroller Normal of Nigeria Customs Service, Adewale Adeniyi, mentioned that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s authorities has focused 10 million hectares of land for meals manufacturing to ensure meals safety in Nigeria.

Adeniyi disclosed this on Tuesday throughout a e book launch at Customs Headquarters in Abuja.

He acknowledged that Customs is solidly behind the federal government’s meals safety plan, emphasising that Tinubu’s administration had taken daring steps to handle the instant problem of excessive meals costs by eradicating tariffs and different import duties on key staples akin to rice, wheat, maize, and sorghum for six months.

“There’s an formidable goal to domesticate greater than 10 million hectares of land for meals manufacturing. This initiative not solely goals to spice up our meals safety but in addition to leverage our considerable arable land, solely 40 per cent of which is at present cultivated,” Adeniyi acknowledged.

DAILY POST recollects that the federal government introduced a 150-day zero import obligation waiver for chosen staple meals to crash costs.