At Dizengoff’s open day, experts advocate Greenhouse for food sufficiency
As the country continues to grow faster than the food produced, Greenhouse technology has again been identified as the fastest means of narrowing the food gap. Unlike their counterparts in East African countries, where the greenhouse method has been fully embraced, Nigerian farmers are lagging behind in adoption of the modern farming system, which experts
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PAN, AFAN list ways to end food smuggling, import
Competitive food production, involvement of youths in agriculture, introduction of technologies and mobilisation of resources to the agro-allied industry have been suggested as means of ending high food import bills and smuggling. Presidents of the Poultry Association of Nigeria (PAN), Ezekiel Ibrahim Mam and the All Farmers’ Association of Nigeria (AFAN), Mr Kabir Ibrahim, said
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When will Nigeria attain food independence?
FEMI IBIROGBA writes that 58 years after Nigeria became politically independent, the country is still shackled in food insecurity, as evident in annual food import bills. Nigerians from all walks of life have bemoaned perpetual inability of the country to sustainably feed itself, leading to mass importation of foods apart from the smuggled ones through
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