Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh, said on Thursday in Abuja that the Federal Government is working hard to ensure it creates about 3million jobs from agriculture in 2016.
Ogbeh made this known during the defence of his ministry’s 2016 budget before the Senate.
He said this strategy is to diversify the economy through huge investment in the sector and make it one of the largest contributors to the country’s Gross Domestic Product, GDP.
The Minister further said there are plans to increase the national food supply to address national food security, to add 20 million metric tons of food annually and to create three million sustainable jobs annually.
Ogbeh disclosed that the ministry projects Internally Generated Revenue of N904, 739,098.69 for 2016 fiscal year and will be made up of N664, 998,569.88 as taxes and N239, 740,528.81 as Independent Revenue.
The 2016 budget proposal for the ministry is N40, 918,856,927.
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