Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh, disclosed this yesterday while addressing State newsmen at the end of the Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting.
It would be recalled that the Council had last week set up a task force to advise the government on how best to address the rising cost of food items across the country.
Ogbeh said the task force submitted an interim report to the council yesterday, adding that the committee had identified that the hike in cost was “not due to shortage but high cost of transportation.”
He said food items were generally moved across Nigeria with heavy trucks and that the price of diesel which had gone up had, therefore, led to an increase in prices.
The minister said the government had, therefore, decided to “start using railway wagons to transport food items.
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