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The experts made
this known during the joint programme organised as part of the 2016/2017
international year of pulses and cowpea day celebration in Kano
organised by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in
collaboration with Kano Agricultural and Rural Development Authority
(KNARDA) and other agricultural development agencies in Katsina and
Sokoto.
According to this
year's celebration's coordinator Professor Ado A.Yusuf, the cowpea
celebration programme is aimed at heightening public awareness of the
nutritional benefits of pulses in addition to its economic values as
part of sustainable food production aimed towards food security and
nutrition through creation of unique opportunity to encourage
connections throughout the food chain that would better utilize
pulse-based proteins, further global production of pulses and address
the challenges in the trade of pulses.
Similarly,
representative of KNARDA at the occasion, the Director Extension, Malam
Sadi Ibrahim stated that, the programme wouldn't have come in a better
time than now. According to him, there is a need for the farmers to
understand that aside cowpea production and processing there is a need
for the public to be enlightened on the good side of pulses and cowpea
consumption.
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