Images speak as NAERLS presents 2022 Flood reports in Abuja
The Executive Director (ED), Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR)Prof. Mohammed Ishiaku has recommended later parts of May, and early June as suitable periods for the planting of cereal and legume crops respectively in the Savanna area of Nigeria.
Premier Seed Nigeria Limited, a first famous indigenous seed company has recently received a pat on the back along with National Horticultural Research Institute (NIHORT) for being able to bring for documentation and release of two different tomato varieties after a very long while in the history of crops varietal release in the country, just as one yellow hybrid maize fortified with pro-vitamin A was also approved for registration and release for the company.
The Executive Director (ED) Lake Chad Research Institute (LCRI), Prof. Baba Gana Kabir has promised to continually ensure that farmers across all the ecologies of the country have access to all the newly released millet varieties of the Institute to achieve availability of well-fortified nutritious food in commercial quantities to checkmate import bill and create good health and wealth for Nigerian people.
The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has in the 2023 Seasonal Climate Predictions (SCP) called on the Government to revive schools' weather garden across the country to create awareness of climate change negative effects on farmlands, properties and human lives.
The National Agricultural Extension and Research Liaison Services (NAERLS), Executive Director (ED) Prof. Emmanuel Ikani has attributed lack of extension policy to why states' Governors are not funding officials in this department, saying the document to achieve it was still pending in the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development ( FMARD).
The Federal Government (FG) through the Nigerian Meteorological Agency ( NiMet) Director General( DG)/ CEO, Prof. Mansur Bako Mutazu has predicted early rainfall in some parts of the country with friendly agricultural weather to increasing food production as some pockets of flash flood incidences should be expected.