The Federal government has announced the deployment of 10,000 agro-rangers across the country.
The agro-rangers is a special squad in the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) set up primarily to protect investments in the agricultural sector and guard against farmers-herders clashes across the country.
Special Assistant to President Tinubu on New Media, Olusegun Dada, who disclosed this in a post on his official X handle, said the move is to curtail insecurity across the food producing belt of the country which has negatively impacted food production in recent times.
According to Dada, agro-rangers will help protect farmers against malicious destruction of farmlands as well as farmer herder conflict.
He pointed out that while the food inflation crisis in the country is a function of many factors, insecurity has been a long term challenge and the collaboration between the NSCDC and the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security is expected to solve a major challenge faced by farmers across the country.
