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The President, Association of Organic agriculture Practitioners
of Nigeria (NOAN) Prof. Victor Olowe has advocated for the inclusion of
organically grown food to be injected in the Federal Government (FG) home
school feeding programme for the purpose of healthy living of our children. He
made this statement at a national roundtable discussion on organic held in Abuja
yesterday.
Prof. Olowe said that it would not be enough giving children
in schools edible food, but rather to give them organically grown foods with
their production farms being established even in those schools for best
agronomics training of the pupils at that tender age as regards organic farming.
He said by so doing the government would have been promoting
healthy living through organically grown foods with an environment free of toxic and
chemicals that are causing kidney and cancer health problems for many who had
died in the process.
NOAN president pointed that there is the need for training
of children in the production of crops in organic ways right from the
elementary schools to secondary and universities saying this is the only way
the practice can be well adapted in our country as the University of Agriculture;
Abeokuta has started this with its four hundred level students.
He wants National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) to
also mainstream organic agricultural education into its current curricular for
broad coverage in colleges asking that Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria
(ARCN) should increase budget for organic farming and agriculture in Nigeria
saying also there is need for media capacity building for the better
understanding and reporting of the sector.
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