ABUJA – Nigeria’s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has again underscored the importance of women growing crops in their backyards at home, saying beyond fostering healthy living for themselves and their immediate families, it guarantees food availability. The First Lady said since she went into home farming, the benefits have been enormous, especially the organic foods she harvest from her farm. She said this accounts for why wives of state governors are being encouraged to pass the message across to their citizens to imbibe home-grown food farming.
She made the remarks on Thursday, while meeting with wives of state governors from the federation and FCT as part of her Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI). The First Lady also disclosed that the RHI has gone into partnership with the Federal Ministry of Agriculture to boost home farming. She revealed that it was on account of this that the Renewed Hope Initiative Home Garden competition was unveiled to encourage more women to key into it.
She said the winner of the competition would be unveiled by December this year. The First Lady, as part of her pet project, the Renewed Hope Initiative, has unveiled a number of programmes impacting lives nationally. Under her supervision, she has initiated scholarship and bursary awards to indigent Nigerian students from across the states of the federation, while also championing the Infrastructure Renewal Project, Early Childhood Development Programme,Women and Young Farmers Support Programm.
