NAGGW endorsed by President Jonathan Administration

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In a efforts at improvingagriculture and increase environmental sustainability in Nigeria, President Goodluck Jonathan has approve the upgrade of the great Green wall Programme implementation Unit (GGW/PIU) to become an independent agency reports NaijaAgroNet.

This is as a result to tackle the issue of Nigeria losing about 2,168qKM of its fertile land almost every year to desertification and putting the lives of many in jeopardy.

Desertification as gathered by NaijaAgroNet had radically affected the value of life in the northern part of Nigeria, and also had resulted in high levels of migration, instability, impacting negatively on the social fabric of the North and confining them to a future of small output, limited economic growth and marginalization.

Research by NaijaAgroNet showed that Nigeria is the world’s largest producer of cassava with an output of over 45 million metric tonnes in 2014 according to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

Mr. Goni Ahmed who is an agricultural scientist and respected environmentalist, has called on stakeholders to support the Great Green Wall Programme thus to deliver dividends to Nigerians as the support and assistance from stakeholders would guarantee the desertification frightening the northern region was brought under control.

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NaijaAgroNet, FAO introduces fish drying technology

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The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) has pioneered a new technology that could be used to dry fish as the traditional way of fish drying is said to come with some health hazards, reports NaijaAgroNet.

Developed by FAO team, NaijaAgroNet gathered the technology would help in reducing health hazards, advance food safety and quality, get better working conditions and slash down food losses in West African fishing villages.

The technology, NaijaAgroNet reports, was developed mainly to address the aspects of fish smoking operations like the safety aspect and also the aspect of reducing post-harvest losses, and also decreasing the labor of fish processors.

"This is a system developed to address many aspects of fish smoking operations," says Ndiaye Oumoulkhaïry, who worked on the FTT design. "In the first place stands the safety aspect - to secure consumers' health and meet international food standards. Then there's reducing post-harvest losses, and also curbing the drudgery of fish processors who are now least exposed to the heat and smoke."

The women in a fishing village in Côte d'Ivoire immediately welcomed the development saying "We are extremely happy, because as of today, with the FTT, our conditions for smoking fish have changed," Deborah Oulou, an Ivorian woman fish processor said.

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