*Farmers alerted
As the
global novel COVID-19 virus spreads to six states in Nigeria, with fear that
the infection could get worse, highly-placed stakeholders in the agricultural
sector have said that food security would be threatened in the country, just as
they had also alerted farmers on the need to take precautionary safety measures
that would prevent them from being infected by the virus.
During a
chat with Food Farm News in his
office in Abuja, the Registrar/ CEO, of the Nigerian Institute of Soil Science,
Prof. Victor Okechukwu Chude disclosed that the disease pandemonium could negatively
affect food productivity saying that farmers were like every other persons that
can be infested thereby resulting to low food production.
Prof. Chude
stressed that whatever affected the economy would also affect food production
as food production is a part of the economy, and the virus didn't have any
boundary at all, it is obvious that the virus would definitely affect the
productivity of farmers and food output in the country.
He therefore
advised that All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), and other associations
under which farmers operate should also be very proactive in advising their
members to taking to precautionary measures.
Also speaking with Food Farm News in Abuja the National Coordinator for Zero Hunger farmers,
Dr. Tunde Arosanye revealed that COVID-19 would definitely affect farming
activities in the country, saying that anything that had effect on the
citizenry would definitely have a cumulative effect on farmers as well.
Arosanye
alerted that the lockdown order of the Federal Government (FG) in some few key
areas of the economy coupled with some states’ decision in line with the apex
Government may negatively impact on food productivity as planting of crops in
the new season may become a challenge due to restriction on movement of the
people.
Another
major challenge he hammered on was marketing of produce due to food stores and
shopping malls that are shut down saying all this would slow down cash flow in
the hands of food vendors and farmers, and this might hinder farmers from
quickly returning back to farms for more production.
He also
advised farmers to take their health seriously, make use of their face mask,
and be cautious while selling their produce and after mixing with customers
they should ensure to wash their hands and even take their bathes.
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