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Darfur: WFP Buys $880,000 Grains from FG From Kingsley Nwezeh in Abuja As efforts to alleviate the suffering of displaced people in the Darfur region of Sudan continue, the World Food Programme (WFP) has ordered the purchase of 3,000 metric tonnes of sorghum from Federal Government at the cost of $880,000. Speaking in Abuja at the weekend during a visit to the Minister for Agriculture, Alhaji Adamu Bello, by the Special Adviser and former Deputy Executive Director of WFP, Mr. Namanga Ngongi,, said the food item was part of WFP's emergency operation for Sudanese refugees in Chad. He added that his organisation was feeding nearly 200,000 people who fled fighting in the crisis-torn region. "This purchase is the first of its kind from the Strategic Grains Reserve and is very cost effective due to Nigeria's proximity with Chad. We are planning to buy more food from Nigeria in the near future. "The considerable food procurement potential in Nigeria for humanitarian needs in the region and the potential role it can play in the preparedness, planning and response capacity is of great interest to WFP," Ngongi said. In a related development, the Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development, Alhaji Adamu Bello has inaugurated a Mohammed Mahmud led technical committee for the development of grazing reserves and stock routes. In his remarks at the function, Bello said the objective of the grazing reserves and stock route development entailed the settlement of pastoralists through the provision of necessary infrastructure and land tenure rights thereby improving the production of livestock nationwide. He said the objective would be achieved by the provision of infrastructure in existing gazetted grazing reserves and stock routes including the settlement of pastoralists, identification, acquisition and gazetting of additional land for use as grazing reserves and stock routes as well as the securing of land tenure rights for pastoralists inside grazing reserves and access to and from dry season grazing areas. Who Are We ? | About THISDAYOnLine.com | THISDAY People | Contact Us © Copyright 2000 Leaders & Company Limited

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