 The Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security Senator Abu Bakar Kiari expressed deep concern on Monday highlighting the lack of accurate data for farmers as the pivotal issue adversely affecting agricultural programs in Nigeria. During his presentation to the National Assembly Joint Committee on Agriculture, the minister underscored that the primary hurdle faced by the ministry is the absence of clean data for farmers. He also emphasized that corruption within the sector significantly undermines food security in the country. The age is, the card is, the what-have-you for the geographical information systems. Let us move away from doing that for properties. Let us do it for all sorts of farmers. So now we have a map, it may take a while, but let us start from somewhere. And without doing that, we will never get our inputs to the right person at the right time. And this is what I've been trying to do. I'm happy that you have raised the issue of delivery at the right time. Part of the 2023 supplementary is to make sure that our, because every time the year's budget is passed before it's released, farming, well-seasoned, asteptic, and delivery of farm inputs that usually come in late. So we're happy that in the 2023 supplementary budget that we have passed, as President has signed into law, we have provision for the provision of some of the well-seasoned inputs. He acknowledged the ministries on the funding and pledged the National Assembly's support to help meet the aspirations of Nigerians with the agricultural sector. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.