A Professor of Agriculture Extension and DevelopmentCommunication, Mohammed Kuta has called on northern states Governors to developa regional agricultural policy to tap the huge potentials in the sector andtransform the region. Kuta gave the advice at the annual memorial lecture of SirAhmadu Bello Memorial Foundation in Kaduna. He said the Governors must keeppolitics aside and unite in developing the region’s agriculture to tacklepoverty and create jobs for the teeming unemployed youths in the region. He recalled the region’s contributions to Nigeria’s Grossdomestic Product, GDP, through agriculture and said more investments should beencouraged in the sector through sound regional agricultural policy. Also, the Foundation’s Managing Director Abubakar Gambo saidagriculture is one of various ways to achieve employment for the teaming youthin the region. According to him, with the rising population, it isimperative for the North to have an inclusive agricultural policy, Intergratedacross modern methods to boost production and economic activities in theregion.