With
the ongoing crusade to ensure food security in Africa, the National
President – Association of Organic Agriculture Practitioners in Nigeria
(NOAN), Professor Gideon Olajire Adeoye has called on farmers and
stakeholders in Nigeria to embrace organic agriculture based on its
capability to feed the nation with proper implementation and sustenance.
Adeoye, at a recently held meeting tagged “Mainstreaming Ecological Organic Agriculture into National Policy Strategies and Programmes in Africa” at the NOAN Secretariat, University of Ibadan, said “with sustainable organic agriculture, there can be an improvement in the quality of urban and rural livelihoods. We can manipulate the environment without destroying it and through that, waste generation and recycling can be done to suit our organics need.”
Further commenting on agriculture in Africa, “there is a problem of food security across Africa and the main issue now is that man, animals and environmental health is threatened as a result of the adoption of conventional agricultural system where the use of chemicals, insecticides and even fertilizers have poisoned our lands and by extension foods produced.”
While applauding the Federal Government for various initiatives and policy implementation, Adeoye reiterated the fact that small holder farmers who are predominantly producing for the Nigerian populace would continue to receive training until the entire country goes organic.
“Government can do a lot by sustaining the organic agriculture initiative and create more awareness so that more youths, women and farmers- alike can be part of the revolution” he added.
During his acceptance speech, the newly elected Chairman National Steering Committee of Ecological Organic Agriculture – EOA in Nigeria Professor Victor Adegboye Togun said: “Large scale crop production is possible through organic farming with bumper harvest to show for it on a yearly basis.”
He thereafter called on government’s collaborations on the initiative especially now that researchers, large scale agricultural entities and higher institutions of learning in Nigeria are keying into it.
Adeoye, at a recently held meeting tagged “Mainstreaming Ecological Organic Agriculture into National Policy Strategies and Programmes in Africa” at the NOAN Secretariat, University of Ibadan, said “with sustainable organic agriculture, there can be an improvement in the quality of urban and rural livelihoods. We can manipulate the environment without destroying it and through that, waste generation and recycling can be done to suit our organics need.”
Further commenting on agriculture in Africa, “there is a problem of food security across Africa and the main issue now is that man, animals and environmental health is threatened as a result of the adoption of conventional agricultural system where the use of chemicals, insecticides and even fertilizers have poisoned our lands and by extension foods produced.”
While applauding the Federal Government for various initiatives and policy implementation, Adeoye reiterated the fact that small holder farmers who are predominantly producing for the Nigerian populace would continue to receive training until the entire country goes organic.
“Government can do a lot by sustaining the organic agriculture initiative and create more awareness so that more youths, women and farmers- alike can be part of the revolution” he added.
During his acceptance speech, the newly elected Chairman National Steering Committee of Ecological Organic Agriculture – EOA in Nigeria Professor Victor Adegboye Togun said: “Large scale crop production is possible through organic farming with bumper harvest to show for it on a yearly basis.”
He thereafter called on government’s collaborations on the initiative especially now that researchers, large scale agricultural entities and higher institutions of learning in Nigeria are keying into it.
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