A Non-Governmental Organisation popularly known as Agro-output
Catalytic Impact Initiative (ACII) has called on the federal
government to address problems of floods, drought which are barriers
to bumper farm productivity in the country.
Mr. Godwin Atser, who represented Dr. Kenton Dashiell, the Director of
partnership for Delivery, (International Institute for Tropical
Africa), IITA made the disclosure during his keynote Speech at the
Centre For Sustainable Development, Ibadan on Saturday.
He said among other alarming things the achievements of the institute
to include Putting an absolute end to Malnutrition and addressing the
effects of climate change – such as droughts and flood which lead to
dwindling farm productivity.
He appealed to the federal government to collaborate with the
organization in putting lasting solution to foods shortage in the
country.
According to him IITA is the largest research institute in Africa as
one of the major landmarks achieved by the organisation is churning
out research findings which have improved the production of African
staple such as Banana; Cowpea; Maize; Cassava; Yam and many more.
He stressed that the theme of the conference “Making and Localising
Agricultural Research Findings Work For Farmers Towards Sustainable
Food Security.” is appropriate and tailored towards finding remedy to
the setback in the agricultural sector.
Also speaking, Miss Tomiwa Agbede gave an insight into how the
agricultural-research based organisation has evolved over the years,
acknowledging presence of sister research-based organisations and she
concluded by reading out order of programme.
