The agrarian revolution is a vision encrypted in the policy trust of the Government of Anambra state geared towards recapturing achieving food security, fight economic hardship and hunger. The Governor’s revolutionary response to hunger and hardship is a solution to food security through availability and access to nutritious food for everyone.
Agricultural revolution is a sustainable solution to hunger, both in the short and long term. The “Farm to Feed Campaign” initiated by the Governor is to encourage Anambra citizens to leverage on available piece of land for farming, with the objective to increase food supply, ease the pressure on food prices, foster a sense of shared responsibility and community spirit.
It is a farming approach which location and space could take place at family backyards or other available spaces in rural and urban centres. Soludo’s revolutionary farming scheme is therefore, a solution that creates opportunities for additional income for poverty and hardship alleviation at individual and community levels. For long term purposes, Anambra youths are under going skill acquisition to equip them in a number of innovative skills including farming vocation and mechanized agriculture. By encouraging youth participation in agriculture, the campaign goes further to address unemployment issues while ensuring the continuity of farming expertise and practices.
The farm-to-feed initiative is consolidated with distribution of palm and coconut seedlings which has the potential for promoting sustainable and equitable agricultural practices and long-term positive environmental impacts. The state government is promoting planting of cassava stems, maize seeds, short-duration crop seedlings, and so on, to help households turn the patches of earth in their backyards into productive micro-farms. The focus is on fast tracking and growing nutrient-rich crops that can provide quick relief to struggling families.
The state government’s Agricultural revolution also engaged the private sectors to drive the Anambra state Industrial City Master plan (AMIC) for the realization of the farm to feed and food security initiatives in the state.
In furtherance of the Food security scheme and revolution ever to take place in the south east, the government of Professor Soludo is reactivating dam and Irrigation farming in Anambra State in partnership with the Federal government . Reactivating long forgotten irrigation farming for food security will go a long way to facilitate all year round farming to boost production and end hunger in the state.. This component of the farming to feed revolution is a five year project towards resuscitating existing federal government water source and dam for production of crops, especially rice and maize. It is a long term solution to actualize food security, reducing dependence on imports and preventing future food inflation crises.
The focus on agriculture would contribute to diversifying the state’s economy, creating a more resilient economic structure, less vulnerable to shock’s from global economy. Governor Soludo’s agrarian revolution is saying: “ Let us get to work every citizen, one at a time…be the change you desire”, with the belief that this would spark off a transformation that will elevate the status of agriculture in the society to same level as ICT.
PROF MADUABUCHI DUKOR
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