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.

Ubandoma Of Ilorin     Taofik Mustapha     Abubakar Usman Jos     Geri-Alimi Split Diamond Interchange     Ibrahim Oloriegbe     Tunde Akanbi     Ahmad Olanrewaju Belgore     Wale Oladepo     Folashade Omoniyi     Bilikisu Oniyangi     Muftau Akanbi Oke     Abdulrahman Iliasu     Smart School     Hassan Saliu     Tunji Ajanaku     SSA Youth     Funmilayo Braithwaite     Ope Saraki     Abdulraufu Mustapha     Stephen Fasakin     Maja     CACOVID Palliatives     Lanre Badmas     Cassava Growers\' Association     Olaiya Victor Mobolaji     Awoye     Olawuyi     Kwara North     Joana Nnazua Kolo     CCT     Mohammed Khadijat Kubura     Abdulazeez Arowona     Mohammed Alabi Lawal     Rebecca Olanrewaju     Arinola Fatimoh Lawal     Alapansapa     Kunbi Titiloye     AbdulRazaq Abubakar Jiddah     Bola Iyabo Ibiyeye Adisa     Bolakale Ayo     RTEAN     New Model Police Station     Baruten     Jare Olatundun     Danhawa     Marufat Oladosu     ER-KANG Mining Nigeria Company Limited     Dan Masanin     Just Event Online     Yahya Mohammed     Academic Staff Union Of Universities     Rueben Parejo     Susan Modupe Oluwole     Alaaya     Temi Kolawole     FOMWAN     Hamid Bobboyi     N-Power     Kolawole Bashirat     Saliu Shola Taofeek     Guber Aspirant     David Oyerinola Adedunmoye     Nigeria Association Of Women Journalists     Salami Adekunle     Kwarareports     Funmilayo Oniwa     Abdulkareem Alabi     Akeem Olatunji     Ojo Isekuse     Kolo     TVC Female National Debate     Iyabo Adewuyi     Kamaldeen Gambari     Boko Haram     Abubakar Abdulraheem     Modupe Oluwole     Kazeem Adekanye    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Okala Baba     Ndakene     Femi Ogunsola     Amule     Omoniyi Ayinla     Playing Host     Ilorin West     Esuwoye     Mohammed Lawal     Kola Adesina     Gbemisola Saraki     Suleiman Rotimi Iliasu     John Olajide Adedipe     Alapansapa     Ganmo Electricity Sub-Station     Nurudeen Muhammed     Jimoh Saadudeen Muhammed     Taofeeq Olateju     Kishira     Idowu Laro     Ladi Hassan     NURTW     Ahmad Lawan     Offa Descendants Union     Solomon Edojah     Amos Justus Sayo     AGM Professional Services     Oke-Ogun     Akorede     Ibrahim Abdulkadir Abikan     Government Girls’ Day Secondary School Pakata     Sidikat Akaje     Abubakar Imam     Nigeria Association Of Women Journalists     Isiaka AbdulRazaq     Ilorin Central Mosque     IYA YUSUF     Bamidele Adegoke Oladimeji     Oba Sulaiman Asude     Wahab Kunle Shittu     AbdulRazaq AbduMajeed Alaro     Olupako     Aliyu Umar     Salami Adekunle     Lanre Aremu     Aasiyat Bello Oyedepo     Sulu Babaita Isiaka     Hauwa Nuru     Plat Technologies     Abdullahi Imam Abdullahi     Ilesha-Gwanara     Kolawole Bashirat     Bola Ahmed Tinubu     Emir Of Shonga     Sarakite     David Oyedepo     Alabe     Osuwa     Oke-Ode     Olatunji Moronfoye     Ajibola Saliu Ajia     Garba Idris Ajia     Doyin Agbamu     Durosinlohun Atiku     Hikmah AbdulKareem     Al-Hikmah University     Yusuf Amuda Gobir     Buhari     Hassan Saliu     Ilorin Likeminds Foundation     Abdulwahab Ololele     Olaoye B. Felix     Arandun     Wasiu Odewale     Ubandoma Of Ilorin     Olusegun Adeniyi     Iliasu