Farming: Food security, NDA save our souls

Farming in Nigeria has taken a dramatic turn to better the masses in recent years, creating jobs and opportunities for entrepreneurs who dare to go into farming business. Millionaires are currently being made every year through farming in Nigeria and there is certainly no end to the prospects of creating more wealth through farming in […]

Farming in Nigeria has taken a dramatic turn to better the masses in recent years, creating jobs and opportunities for entrepreneurs who dare to go into farming business. Millionaires are currently being made every year through farming in Nigeria and there is certainly no end to the prospects of creating more wealth through farming in the country.

The permanent site of Nigeria Defence Academic (NDA), is located along Mando in Afaka to Airport road in Kaduna, which cover the over 15,000 hectares of land, that was used by the institute for anything, except the people using it for farmland. The land has been of benefit to the people around the environment in term of farming, during the rain seasons.

This year can’t be exceptional as it provided food security to the communities around the institute. Whatever may be the security challenge facing the land, which has been used by the both soldiers, ex-servicemen and the civilians have been using it over the years as a farmland? There is need to modify the use of the land rather than stopping farming completely.

The benefits derived from the area by the farmers are more than the disadvantage of it. In the previous year’s issues of form was provided to the farmers to be able to monitoring the activities of farmers in area, especially during the harvesting period, this minimise the stealing of farm products by hooligans. Instead of stopping the farming in the area completely, the authorities concerned can create ad hoc committee that would handle farming in their premises. The committee can engage some soldiers that would be involved their services within the period; the famers would pay for the farm and identity card too. Any farmer that would be in farm has to provide his or her identity card and pay a token of money for the service provided by those soldiers being deployed to the farm. They can equally create avenue for the farmers to know them, by forming a group of three to five or 10 and meet on weekends for discussion.

The management of the institute’s farmland should kindly consider the advantage of the farming, as food security for the serious-minded people, farming for meeting the needs of their family. The security is responsibility of everybody. We are partners in progress as far as food security is concerned.

Suleiman Ainavo

No 4, Aminu Kano Road,

Mando, Kaduna