28-Vanguard, FRIDAY, MAY 25, 20' 2
BUSINESS/ AGRICULTURE BYCHRlSOCJIAYI
INI STER and M Chair man, National
Deputy
Planning Commission, Dr Shamsuddeen Usman, saId yesterday Uld! lheAfncan rounmes are e ndowed wtth knowledge, the technology and the means to end hUDger and food msecunty and therefore must SlOP beggLng (or food
Dr Usman who staled thts at the Iilunchang of the Afnca lIuman Development Report
2012. added that II number
of
caunlnes.
Afflcan
In"
ludlng
-
African countries begging for food unacceptable, says Usman that polJbcal will m the Agricultural
MalaWI, have shown thai Uus can be achieved rather qwckly, but what have been mlssmg are pohllcal Will and
1iansformatlon Agenda, which President Jonathan hlmseU LS Ule
dOOlCaledadJon."
rounal'scbauman.
The Afnca Human Dew!IopmenI Repon 2012 WIth theme 1bwards a Food Secure Future" was orgarused by the UNDP In
coUaborahon WIth the
Accordlng to him, "m
Nlgena, Agncultural Transformation Agenda bemg pursued by thiS ad lmmstrallon combmes both polillcal Will, as
Federal MInistry of Agnrulture al1hsnscorp
typified by mauyurahon
Hulon Hotel Ahuja Dr Usman further
PreSident Goodlue);; Jonathan last week of the
the by
revealed that. Nigena
Agricul t ural
h
li'ansfonnatlon Counal. of wtuch he 1$ Chllllrrnan.
• 5 howevet; dt!monslrated
and the dedicated actlOn repre,ellaibylbedBaiJed prognunme and pnl!OC1S m the Agenda, which the
Honourable Mmasler of Agnculture IS champKJOing" Dr Usman has always
been aD advocate for
Afnca's se.ll reiJance ID aUamlnQ HS d e veloJlc,ental needs
RSON chainnan decries low fish production in Nigeria BY JIM-OU BABATIlNDE wm, AGENCY
REPORT
C
II A IRMA N
of FLShenes SocIety of
Nlgena (FISON). Rivers Slate chapter, Dr Awotelr.m George. has d(>Cned the low level of
hsh producUon
In
the
rounby. WhLle spea kIng with In Port Harcourt, he said that only 40 per cent of the fish cons umed the country was produc.,.d
Journalists
locally
George a lecturer in the DC i>ar tment of bsbcm·s Rivers state UDiveru y of SCience and Tt·chnology (RSUS1), ex,llamed that the Im p >rlcilion was ImpdctJ.Dcf nl-gatlvelyon the nat'OI!"s 'COnomy Tht' hauman expldl I( d lJat many Nlgen. n. v uul.t have
beenu p "", :"(lIf lOOper tlip fJ!oh Ullile I oUhtr, ,, " r - pl )C ..Iced I >cally cent
a
cons~n: <'C
I I 510 Ie
onh
tldVl
lIot
pft 'Vldt>d
the IU' ah.o Ineomt." ..
cmpLO I Lei I I,)) p~0l-'h,
gent-rllt, Georgi s tid He 5 ,) I that Rivers and Baye sa stall'S were expecttd to Ie d.e ··hsb
basket d J.lLgena, by th e vlrlue
of
thelT
geogra " t Ic~ 1 lou lions but lhal r 'verse was the
case Geor!J(
Rivers
projects
,aid that flshenes t hat were
expect(:d 10 cha nge the situatIOn lad coUapsed
Cassava value to increase after 12 months - /ITA
Manager 1l\1l0N Manage< of Inrem IbOnallnsblute
S
for TropKal
o\gncu1ture
(IITA) I n AbuJa,Mr Oluseguo Adunoye. bas said that ttc unpaclol new govetow.eot policy on cas;;sava WlU.DIiUl.Ifest .... one)'Oil<
Adunoye told the News Ag ency at Nlgena ( NAN) i n Kubwa , AbuJa that cassava Ilornally grow W1thm 10 months and 12 months 1 1 parts of the counby
He scud lilat the Federal Governn ent r£-cenUy launche< Ihe cassava bread""d that the economl heneflts of casSdV.. s,ould be expected In a y.:ar's nme TIle mllllo ger t:Xpressed thehop-tl dtt'lelt\dlhood of
poor
lcl! I1lt. n. 'A >UId bd
bettt."r aft r line year of thorouq'l ( '''''i I\'d useQt. b bdk.