Promising route to attaining food security - Vanguard News

OVER the years, the nation has embarked on a series of plans, programmes and projects to diversify the economy, achieve sustainable development and attain food security. Unfortunately, not much can be said to have been achieved due to several factors among which is the little attention paid to the enormous opportunities that plant protection offer.

The historic opening ceremony was chaired by the Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Alhaji Mustapha Shehuri; Akwa Ibom State governor, Mr. Udom Emmanuel, represented by his Commissioner for Agriculture and Women Affairs, Dr. Gloria Edet; was the special guest of honour, while the guest of honour was a member, House of Representatives, Henry Archibong.

The society decries the indiscriminate importation, marketing and utilisation of agro-chemicals and planting materials in the nation’s agricultural system, which has caused more damage than providing solutions as sustainable plant health is strategic to feeding the growing global population that is billed to reach nine billion by 2050 while plant protection remains the main precursor for industrial development by providing the basic materials for processing and enhancing crop plant productivity.

The society believes that with venture capital and special government sponsorships of crop protection research, agricultural production would be boosted and there would be better chances of securing funds for collaborative projects of mutual benefits.

NSPP was founded on May 16, 1970, at the then Department of Agricultural Biology, now Crop Protection and Environmental Biology at the nation’s premier University of Ibadan, Oyo State. The society is made up of professionals in plant protection and allied fields. Membership is spread across the country covering individuals and corporate organisations.

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