Farmers hail Eco-clean sapropel
The CEO, Marshal & Mitchel International Services Ltd, Mr. Sunny Onyeaso speaking on its potential nutrients to soil and yield to crops. |
The Federal
Government (FG) has reiterated its support for organic fertilizer based on its high
demand and premium price importance to agriculture productivity in the world
market just as the farmers under the umbrella of Federation Agricultural
Commodity Associations (FACAN) have expressed happiness to the introduction of
Eco-clean sapropel based organic fertilizer into the market.
The Minister of
state Federal Ministry Industry Trade and Investment, Hajiya Aisha Abubakar made
the view of government known at the official lunch Eco-Clean Organic fertilizer
(Sapropel-based) in Abuja, recently.
Hajiya
Abubakar who was represented by Deputy Director (DD), supervisory division, Dr.
Francis Alaneme said that the ministry was mandated to ensure that more
investors go into organic fertilizer production for the purpose of meeting the
big gap of fertilizer application standard as recommended by the Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Her words: ‘’
the ministry is engaged to source for investors in organic fertilizer to fill
in the gap that is existing in the low quantity of fertilizer usage in Nigeria
by FOA standard of 200kg per hectare. Nigeria is still at 15kg-20kg per
hectare. This gap needs to be filled by organic fertilizer’’.
She said
that the ministry was formulating a national industrial fertilizer production policy
with prominent position for organic fertilizer in view of its potential in
terms of value addition to agricultural produce and soil nutrients, stressing
that national production policy on organic fertilizer must be integrated into
agricultural production for acceptable local consumption and export.
She added
that the ministry’s mandate to industrialise the nation with value added food
processing was in line with Nigeria Industrial Revolution Plan (NIRP) and
Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP) of the present administration of President
Mohammadu Buhari and that the government has approved the adoption and usage of
this eco-clean organic fertilizer product after satisfying all necessary soil
laboratory tests for local application.
The National
Secretary, FACAN, Alhaji (Dr) Dogondaji expressed happiness of farmers to
finally have this product officially launched, pointing out that the feedback
from the associations’ members was quite impressive with high acceptability
after usage, adding that the product was very timely in view of orders recently
received by FACAN members for the supply/exportation of ten different organically-produced
commodities.
He advised
that the company producing the product must be well prepared to meet the need
of farmers in terms of adequate supply to ensure adequate availability at any
planting season of the year.
In his
address, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Marshal & Mitchell
International Services Ltd, the producers of the eco-clean organic fertilizer,
Mr. Sunny Onyeaso assured farmers of adequate supply saying that a Memorandum
of Understanding (MOU) had been signed with an organic European company for the
constant supply of materials in the next 30-40 years.
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