Medical doctor advocates organic living

·       NICERT-ECOCERT hammers certification

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO),Afe Abayomi Farm estate and a medical practitioner, Prof. Akin Abayomi 

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO),Afe Abayomi Farm estate and a medical practitioner, Prof. Akin Abayomi has emphasized that Nigerians should embrace organic living so as to rescue lives and the environment from injurious self-inflicted toxic just as NICERT an indigenous organization in partnership with ECOCERT, also an international organization is hammering on certification before export to specific destination.

Speaking at the National Organic Agriculture Business summit in Lagos last week, Prof. Abayomi also an environmentalist and biosecurity expert pointed in his paper tilled “organic agriculture and health perceptive” that in view of uncontrollable growing population coupled distorted ecosystem based on tree felling and chemical applications on our land without proper consideration to the health implication to humans and environment require a need to go organic in all ramification in Nigeria.

Prof. Abayomi posited that there is need to have a paradigm shift from organic farming to organic living pointed that an assaulted land because of synthetic fertilizers, pesticide and herbicide application cannot give an efficient farming produce to good health, adding that many cases of cancer and other diseases are the inherent result of chemical spraying into our environment.

He therefore advocated for the keeping of our forest so as to be able to keep enough moisture and waters that will ensure rain for farming saying “Already we are in drought now because we have destroyed our forest. When you destroyed soil phenology your eco system content is also destroyed”

The medical professor and organic farmer however wanted the government to give enough support to farmers in order to enhance organic farming for healthy living in Nigeria saying that many advanced countries do give such to their farmers in order to meet demand and supply of food productions.

Meanwhile the Managing Director, NICERT-ECOCERT,  Mr. Ajibola Oluyede has emphasized that organic stakeholders must inject best agronomics practices that would ensure certification to Europe and other international destinations added that NICERT in partnership with ECOCERT would give exclusive online services to facilitate certification process in Nigeria.

Mr. Ajibola advised farmers that more premium is attracted when organic procedure practices from production, processing and packaging is adhered to saying that was the gap his company would be filling in Nigeria at a very affordable price.