The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has postponed the National Council on Agriculture meeting earlier scheduled to hold between March 20 and March 24 in Umuahia, the capital of Abia.
The Permanent Secretary, Bukar Hassan, announced the postponement during a meeting with state Commissioners for Agriculture in Abuja on Thursday.
He said that the postponement was to enable the ministry to finalise some arrangements for the programme and for the commissioners to come with better results.
The permanent secretary, who expressed regret over the inconveniences the postponement might have caused participants, said a new date would be communicated to the states.
The National Council on Agriculture is the apex decision-making organ on issues concerning the agriculture sector in the country and brings together officials from the three tiers of government as well as stakeholders.
It is expected that the council will evolve a national agricultural policy document that will assist the country to attain self-sufficiency in food production for consumption and export and deliberate on other issues.
The last council meeting was held in Kano in February 2016.
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