The National Agricultural Land Development Authority (NALDA) is a parastatal under the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) with the objective of:

  1. Provide strategic public support for land development which presently constitutes a major infrastructural development bottleneck hindering the development of viable economic farm holdings;
  2. Promote and support optimum utilisation of Nigeria’s rural land resources for accelerated production of food and fibre;
  3. Encourage and support economic-size farm holdings and promote consolidation of scattered fragment holdings to generate net income from agriculture which is aimed at sustaining living standards above the poverty line and thereby narrow rural-urban income inequalities;
  4. Encourage the evolution of economic-size rural settlements that will reap the economies of scale in the provision of social infrastructures;
  5. Provide gainful employment opportunities for rural people, raise rural incomes and improve on the general living standards in rural areas;
  6. Expand productive capacity in agriculture and regain export capability in traditional and non-traditional crops;
  7. Contribute significantly towards the attainment of a national food and fibre self-reliance, self-sufficiency and national food security through optimum utilisation of available abundant land resources which ensures minimum soil and environmental degradation, while simultaneously promoting sustainable agriculture;
  8. Facilitate appropriate cost-effective mechanisation of agriculture; and
  9. Institute strategic land use planning schemes to deal with major allocation problems including the creation and location of forest and grazing reserves and other areas with restricted use, and the relocation of population, should this be necessitated by localised population explosion, pressure or national disasters.

Plot 802, Tafawa Balewa Way,
Malunfashi close,
Area 11, Garki,
Abuja FCT Nigeria