The National President, Sesame Seed Association of Nigeria, Alhaji Sheriff Balogun has described the present high demand for the produce as too crazy due to scarcity as farmers could not cultivate because of insecurity in the country.
Alhaji Sheriff expressed this concern last week in his office with Food Farm News while responding to the present position of the produce across the globe.Sheriff
posited that insecurity through the activities of bandits and kidnappers must
be properly put to check so that farmers can have the confidence of going to
cultivate more sesame to mitigate the shortfall that is making prices to go
higher with increasing demand across the globe.
According to
him ‘’ the present demand for sesame seed is crazy across the globe with
Nigeria low production due to insecurity occasioned by bandit and kidnappers
activities that is making farmers to refrain from going to farms to cultivate
more above the 500.000 metric tons . This is part of great challenges that have
caused the scarcity and hence the high prices’’
Balogun had
said in his Kano speech during the international conference on sesame that globally, over 4.8 million tons of
sesame seeds are produced annually with data from NBS showing export of the
crop in 2020 at N49 billion to Japan, Turkey and Europe, added that Nigeria is
largest producer in Africa and third largest in the world with 580,000 tons
produced in 2017.
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