Agric Express Readiness To Partner with BBDA In order To Monitor Transborder Activities
The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security has expressed readiness to partner with Babanna Boarder Development Agency (BBDA) in order to check agricultural activities at the border.
This was made known by Sen. Dr Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, the Honourable Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Security, in Abuja while playing host to the Management of the Agency led by its Director-General, Mohammed Garba Danladi.
He said the partnership would assist the Ministry monitor agricultural activities in that part of the country in cooperation with the agency and the host community.
The Minister, in a statement issued on Sunday by Eremah Anthonia (Mrs.), Chief Information Officer, on behalf of the Director Information, also dwell on the need for data on farmers within and around the border community as there are many agricultural activities in that area, including the movement of Livestock across the border.
He went further to direct the setting up of a Joint Action Committee to work out ways to formalize the relationship between the Ministry and the Agency through a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
The Committee comprised some Directors of the Ministry and Senior Officials of the Babanna Border Development Agency.
Speaking earlier, the Director-General of the Agency, Mohammed Garba Danladi, expressed delight over his visit to the Ministry, describing it as a home coming, noting that the agency was a product of the Federal Government charged with agricultural activities including crop production, marketing while watching movements across the border as it is located at the border between Niger State and Benin Republic.
He went ahead to seek for cooperation, support, and partnership with the Ministry in order achieve the desired goal.
The Joint Action Committee is to be headed by the Director Planning and Policy Coordination of the Ministry, Mr. Ibrahim Tanimu who is expected to present a draft Memorandum of Understanding in the next meeting of the Committee.
