Abuja — Renowned
agriculturist and food security expert, Dr. Joseph Odusanya, has called
on the federal government to embrace the cutting-edge bio-crops
biotechnology, the latest innovation in plantlets and seed
multiplication, as the solution to the country's food challenge.
He said
that the massive deployment of the technology will improve the
country's foreign exchange.
Odusanya, who is
the Chief Executive Officer, of Bio-crops Biotechnology, made the
disclosure weekend, while conducting the Permanent Secretary, Federal
Capital Territory Administration (FCTDA), Mr. John Chukwu, around the
plant and seed multiplication laboratories and farms in Abuja.
According to him,
the recent ban on certain food item is a good omen for the country,
adding: "In terms of food insecurity, now we have the new cutting edge
technology to increase the production of the various crops within the
country.
The aeroponics can be deployed for instance to mass produce
disease free yams in a secluded cultured air environment without
cultivating the soil."
Bio-crops
biotechnology, Odusanya, added can also be used to produce 15 enriched
species of sweet potatoes within a short time of gestation.
The
varieties he acknowledged were gotten from the national potatoes centre
in Kenya.
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