Post-harvest losses, threat to food security, industrialisation - Gov Ahmed

Date: 2016-11-11

The Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, and the Acting Executive Director, Agricultural and Rural Management Training Institute, Dr. Olufemi Oladunni, have said that post-harvest losses are adversely affecting efforts at ensuring national food security and industrialisation in Nigeria.

According to them, post-harvest losses reduce raw materials for industries, thereby inhibiting industrialisation and commercial activities. They spoke on Thursday during a sensitisation workshop on 'Managing post harvest losses for participating communities' in ARMTI's Village Alive Development Initiative programme.

The programme was for farmers in Amayo, Elerinjare, Falokun-Oja, Jimba-Oja, and Igbo-Owu in Ifelodun Local Government Area, and Fufu, Ilota, Omomere-Oja, and Apa-Ola of Ilorin South Local Government Area, all in Kwara State.

Ahmed, who was represented by the Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr. Adegoke Bamidele, said it was imperative to address post-harvest losses to encourage more investment in agriculture.

He said, "Definitely, I share the opinion that post-harvest losses are a major inhibition to agricultural growth. The Kwara State government knows that one of the ways you can help the farmers is to make sure that when they are done with their harvests, they are able to preserve them.

"The state government has been having a lot of programmes for that. We have off-takers, who will take off farmers' produce. Reducing post-harvest losses will help address recession and economic challenges."

Oladunni identified post-harvest losses as a major challenge confronting the Nigerian farmers.

He stated that the VADI programme was aimed at assisting communities to ensure they managed their harvested produce so that they could get commensurate income from their harvests.

Oladunni said, "When you increase their income, they will turn more into the economy; the economy will move up, their harvests will also be turned into processing that will employ people; the processing will also employ people who will get it to the tables of consumers. It is a major strategy to address recession more so we are an agrarian economy."

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Jebba     Mohammed Alabi Lawal     Habeeb Saidu     Ajase-Ipo     Aminat Omodara     Bareke     Iyabo Adewuyi     Alumni Association Of The Federal Polytechnic Offa     Bio Ibrahim     Bello Oyedepo     Ojo Fadumila     Abdullahi Atanda     Ile Arugbo     Baba Issa Awoye     BIR     Halidu Danbaba     Olayinka Are     Pategi     FERMA     Opaleke Bukola Iyabo     Damilola Yusuf     Laboratory-to-Product     Buari Edun     Isau     Admiralty Villa     Amule Elementary School     Iyabo Adisa Ibiyeye     Isiaka Oniwa     Bashirat Bola Bello     Kwara Consultative Forum     Monsurat Omotosho     Edret Sabi Abel     Shehu Raheem Adaramaja     Yakubu Gobir     Ilorin East/South Federal Constituency     Bature Bello     KWSIEC     Salihu Yahaya     Ibrahim Sulu Gambari     CACOVID Palliatives     Femi Ogunsola     Kumbi Titiloye     Convocation Ceremonies     Ajasse-Ipo     Abdulrasaq Alaro     Suleiman Mora Omar     Musa Aibinu     Olatunji Ibrahim     Michael Nzekwe     Towobola Abdulrahman Toyin     Balogin Alanamu     Mahe Abdulkadir     Modibo Kawu     Aishat Sulu-Gambari     Dauda Adesola     Iliasu     Kaosarah Adeyi     Abdulmumini Jawondo     Yusuf AbdulRasheed     Alabi Lawal     Ibrahim Taiwo Road     Yusuf Babatunde Abdulwahab     Ado Ibrahim     Ilorin.Info     Igbomina     Abubakar Baba Sulaiman     Erin-ile     Saka Abimbola Isau     Lawal Olohungbebe     Yusuf Arowosaye     Oke-opin     Adamu Attah     ASMAU PLAZA     Centre For Digital Economy     Saka Isau     Kannike     Rapheal Ashaolu    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

CACOVID Palliatives     Ghali Alaaya     Baba Adini Of Kwara State     Bashiru Makama     Saka Aleshinloye     Sidikat Uthman Ajibola     Monsurat Omotosho     PPS     Ahmad Belgore     Aisha Gobir     Pategi     Kunle Akogun     Ope Saraki     Quran     Plat Technologies     Tunde Akanbi     Yusuf Babatunde Abdulwahab     Arinola Fatimoh Lawal     Lanre Badmus     Ishola Moses Abiodun     Folajimi Aleshinloye     Yakubu Mohammed Abdullahi     Tayo Alao     Oniwa     Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq     Yusuf Abdulraheem     Bayo Ajia     Tinubu Legacy Forum     All Confederation Of Principals Of Secondary Schools     Orisun Igbomina     Peter Amogbonjaye     Waziri Yakubu Gobir     Crystal Corner Shops     Bolakale Kawu     RTEAN     Iyabo Dupe Adekeye     Ajayi Okasanmi     Matthew Okedare     Azeez Salawu     Abdullahi Imam Abdullahi     Eghe Igbinehin     Saka Keji     Sheikh Ridhwanullah El-ilory     Bolaji Aladie     Ekweremadu     Oyun     Lawyers Unite Against Corruption     Share-Tsaragi     The Herald     Adesina Simon Sodiya     Ronke Adeyemi     Funmilayo Isiaka Oniwa     Ayinde Oki     Isau     Forgo Battery Company Limited     Ibrahim Oloriegbe     Kwara State Council Of Chiefs     April 11     Tsado Manman     Wale Oladepo     Ramadan     Zulu Gambari     Alloy Chukwuemeka     Kayode Ogunlowo     Moji Makanjuola     Aliyu Adebayo     Garuba Alikinla Shittu     EndSARS     Kwarareports.com     Ubandoma     Aremu Bose Deborah     Ayobami Seriki     Moshood Kashimawo Abiola     Yahaya Seriki     Post Utme     Ileloke     Col. Ibrahim Taiwo