The Federal Government has introduced its inauguration of a National Gender Steering Committee for the Implementation of the Gender Policy within the Agricultural sector, in a bid to supply equal entry and gender-sensitive approaches in direction of meals manufacturing.

This was disclosed  by Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Ernest Umakhihe, who inaugurated the Committee on Wednesday in Abuja.

“The initiative will promote and ensure the adoption of gender-sensitive responsive approaches, plans and programmes in such a way that men and women will have equal access and control of productive resources,” he mentioned.

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He added that availability of the coverage doc was anticipated to deal with the vulnerability of girls to biases within the Agriculture sector, combine gender views in National Planning, create extra jobs and monetary empowerment for ladies, citing that the National Gender Policy in Agriculture was in keeping with the Global 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by World Leaders on the United Nations Summit in New York, USA, in September 2015.

Director, Special Duties within the Ministry, Mrs Fausat Lawal additionally acknowledged that “Women, small scale holder farmers constitute about 70-80% of the agriculture labour force and they produced the bulk of food for domestic consumption.”

She added that the coverage doc is a developmental technique for poverty discount and it’s anticipated to empower small scale holder farmers who’re predominately girls.