The Federal Government has sent a delegation to Morocco to finalise a partnership to develop Nigeria’s first National Agro-Productivity System. Led by Senator Ibrahim Hadejia, Deputy Chief of Staff in the Office of the Vice President, the delegation is representing Vice President Kashim Shettima, Chairman of the Presidential Food Systems Coordinating Unit (PFSCU), to sign the agreement on Friday, July 17, 2026.
The initiative relies on a shared geospatial intelligence platform to provide federal, state, and local governments with real-time data on crop location, land availability, yield projections, and food security threats.
The Executive Secretary of the PFSCU, Marion Moon, announced that the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) will be signed between the PFSCU, Morocco’s OCP Africa, and Ground Truth Analytics.
Moon stated that the system marks a shift in how the country approaches agricultural planning, noting that the future of agriculture depends equally on stronger intelligence and improved inputs.
The partnership comes three years after President Bola Tinubu declared a state of emergency on food security in July 2023. Nigeria’s food security challenges increased in late 2023 following the removal of the petrol subsidy and currency reforms, which triggered a food inflation spiral that exceeded 40 per cent year-on-year in early 2025.
This was compounded by structural weaknesses in the nation’s data infrastructure, leaving planners unable to monitor production or target interventions.
In response, Vice President Shettima inaugurated the PFSCU in July 2024 to coordinate agricultural interventions under the National Agribusiness Policy Mechanism (NAPM).
The National Agro-Productivity System will begin with a six-month pilot program across three states, focusing on dataset calibration, ground-truthing, and national capacity building. The pilot is designed to establish the technical and institutional foundations before the system is deployed nationwide.
The delegation to Morocco includes representatives from the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Justice, the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, and the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA).
Source: Vanguard News
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