Farmers in Nigeria have called on the Government to provide security, affordable farm inputs like seeds, insecticides, herbicides and fertilisers to boost food production.

Mr Kabir Ibrahim, President of All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), speaking to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Friday, said that farmers needed some level of mechanisation.

According to VANGUARD, Ibrahim said insecurity prevented farmers from going to the farm, stressing that farmers needed a sense of security alongside other requirements to enable them to put in more work in the farms.

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He advised that what technology incubation centres across the country were able to produce should be boosted to facilitate indigenous technologies which could be applied in agriculture.

He said various farm tools and implements for tractors could be manufactured in the country via the technology incubation centres.

VANGUARD reports that he said, “We need all efforts to make food available because now, you cannot even import, every country is on its own.

“Our scientists are busy, they need to be helped, we need to patronise them, their products should be made available to farmers.

“This is the only way to get out because you cannot go and buy food from anywhere,’’ he said.

He further stated, “All that farmers want to see is to have good yield from seeds that are made available to them, they will not even ask questions,’’ he said.

“For instance, we have a farmer who gets two tons of maize in the field and you are introducing a seed type that will give him four tons, he will definitely buy that and will not even care that some people are making noise, he will not even hear them.

“All he needs to do is to eulogise the possibility of improving his yield and the seed availability and affordability of the seeds,’’ Kabir said.