Nigeria has reduced its budgetary allocation to the agricultural sector by 20 percent from N173 billion in 2018 to N138 billion in 2019 despite government efforts to attain food security.
Experts in the agric sector say that the N138 billion which comprises of both recurrent and capital expenditure
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Josephine Okojie
Josephine Okojie-Okeiyi is a journalist with over five years’ reporting experience. She writes on industry, agriculture, commodities, climate change, and environmental issues.
She is fellow of Thomson Reuters Foundation and Bloomberg Media Initiative for Africa.
