The Federal Government has announced the expansion of the Homegrown School Feeding Programme by setting a target of reaching 20 million children by 2026.
The Vice President Kashim Shettima, who stated in Abuja on Friday, described it as both an educational investment and a national security strategy.
Shettima was represented by the Special Adviser to the President on Economic Affairs, Office of the Vice President, Dr. Kolade Fasua, at the National Policy Forum on the Institutionalisation and Implementation of the Renewed Hope National Home Grown School Feeding Programme.
He said the expansion under President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda, was the boldest yet in the history of the intervention.
He explained that the programme, relaunched earlier this year, is designed to improve school enrollment and learning outcomes while creating a guaranteed daily market for smallholder farmers, women entrepreneurs, and local processors.
