The lawmakers threatened against the early selling of grains from outside the state to merchants.
Adamawa State House of Assembly
On Thursday, 5th November, the Adamawa State Huse of Assembly warned that Food crisis could hit the state.
The lawmakers threatened against the early selling of grains from outside the state to merchants.
Merchants from Enugu, Abia, Kano, Jigawa and other states have been listed as food security threats to the state.
On Thursday, the House also adopted a resolution mandating the state governor, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, to place a high tariff on any trailer load of grain leaving the state.
The resolution also required the governor to set up a regulatory policy to monitor early sales of grains in the state, in addition to high tariffs.
Members of the House said that food shortages were complicated by the inability of some Northern Axis communities to return to farming due to intermittent attacks by terrorists from Boko Haram.
They added that the outbreak and drought of COVID-19 had exacerbated the state's low crop yields.
In the meantime, the European Union has funded 40,000 agricultural households to relieve the harsh effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change.
The help, which OXFAM and CRUDAN are implementing through their PROACT project, aims to improve food security and resilience against hunger.
At a meeting of stakeholders on agricultural budgets to boost food security in the state of Adamawa on Thursday in Yola, the state capital, it was decided that the food crisis in the state was imminent.
Dishi Khobe, State Commissioner for Agriculture, called for a substantial increase in the budgetary allocation for agriculture, adding that the 2021 budget has been formulated on the basis of a community needs assessment.
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