Arc. Kabir Ibrahim, National President of All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), has said that full scale importation of food into Nigeria cannot make the country food secure, saying that the effort in that regard will forever remain stop-gap or palliative.

A release on Sunday issued by Ibrahim, explained that Nigeria can only mitigate, what he described as “imminent hunger catastrophe through focused agriculture and sustainable agribusiness.”

Ibrahim, who is also the President of Nigeria Agribusiness Group (NABG), said the current level of crushing food inflation occasioned by stresses in Nigeria’s Food System sprouting from low productivity predicated on low mechanisation,difficulty in access to credit,access to veritable and affordable seeds, access to manageable and ready-to-go transportation, inadequate smart agricultural facilitation, insecurity and lately flooding as well as drought in some places due to the severe effects of climate change are making it next to impossible to enable the average household to put food on the table.