Gombe govt encouraging irrigation to overcome threats to food security

 Gombe govt encouraging irrigation to overcome threats to food security

From. Rabilu Abubakar, Gombe

The Gombe state governor Muhammad Inuwa Yahaya, said his administration was encouraging irrigation farming as a way of overcoming the threat to food security bedveling the Nation.

Governor Inuwa, who was represented by his deputy Manasseh Daniel Jatau, in a one day explortory dialogue of the United Nation system summit in the north east held in Gombe yesterday on food and nutrition. 

Saying with the Dams in Dadin-kowa, Balanga and Cham in Gombe state government would continue utilize them and improved agriculture towards tackling food security.

He also said since nutrition was one of the major challenges facing  the state, there was the need for collaboration between the state government and other agencies towards tackling the issue.

In his goodwiil message the representative of USAID, Dr Farouk Kurawa, said it was a known fact that the sustained humanitarian crisis in North East for over a decade had contributed significantly to high burden of poverty and hunger among vulnerable population in the region.

Said this was worsened by the Covid 19 pandemic, which clearly showed the weakness in our entire system and the need to strengthen collaboration and plans to address these gaps.

Dr Kurawa, added that hunger and poverty continue to be an issue we are facing due to an ever-growing population without a corresponding increase in the food production the height of insecurity in most part of the North East, hence the meeting would help address the challenge of hunger.

End.