FG: We’ll sustain use of technology to boost production

The Federal Government will sustain the deployment of Geographic Information Services (GIS) and other similar technologies to help farmers achieve increased production, President Muhammadu Buhari has said.

President Buhari, who spoke while receiving a delegation of the Surveyors Council of Nigeria (SURCON) led by the President of the International Federation of Surveyors, Prof Rudolf Staiger, also pledged to develop quality infrastructure that will bring prosperity to millions of Nigerians in both urban and rural areas.

“To achieve this, we are working with surveyors, engineers and town planners. I am, therefore, confident that the 344 new surveyors inducted into the register of the Surveyors Council of Nigeria will be very busy in the coming years,” he said in a statement issued by his media aide, Garba Shehu.

The President, who said he was happy that many States in Nigeria were adopting GIS for both urban and rural development, added that the Federal Government was still on track in using similar technologies to support farmers to increase their yields.