Tag: #NigeriaFoodSecurity
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PLATEAU GOV LAUNCHES 50HA POTATO SEED FARM TO QUADRUPLE YIELDS
Gov Caleb Mutfwang broke ground Friday on a massive 50-hectare Irish potato seedling multiplication site in Bokkos’ Butura community, unleashing disease-free, weather-tough imported seeds to rocket farmer output from 100 bags per hectare to a whopping 400—flipping Plateau into Nigeria’s potato powerhouse and luring factories nationwide. Drawing from his own farming roots, Mutfwang vowed trainings…
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NGO WARNS AGAINST GMOS IN NIGERIA’S FARMING, CALLS FOR SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS TO FOOD INSECURITY
The Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) says bringing Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) into Nigerian farming is not the answer to the country’s food insecurity. Speaking at a hands-on agro-ecology training in Bakassi, HOMEF’s Joyce Brown stressed that GMOs threaten Nigeria’s food sovereignty since farmers can’t save or reuse GMO seeds and would become dependent…
