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First, in agriculture, Abimbola Ogunwusi, one of Nigeria’s leading forestry experts, has argued that the bamboo industry is a good way to generate energy and alternatives to deforestation.
Views: Visits 10 The country’s three paper mills have failed to produce as planned for years, but experts say non-wood raw materials abundant in the country can help revive them. On Danladi Abubakar’s corn farm, now harvested, lie massive heaps of stalks about to be burnt. The farmland is located at Moniya, a suburb of Ibadan, Oyo State. This practice of Mr Abubakar’s, like many other farmers’, causes emissions of carbon dioxide, an harmful chemical compound, into the atmosphere, hence contributing to global warming and ultimately, climate change. But if not burnt, the heaps ...
Nigeria can now produce silkworm eggs for farmers – FG Silk farming or sericulture, which is the cultivation of silkworm to produce silk, has since remained an excellent agro-based cottage industry for rural reconstruction and development. Mr. Ojo Fashakin, an agriculturist, who specilalises in sericulture, noted that silk is an animal protein fibre produced by certain insects to build cocoons and webs. He explained that the vast majority of the world’s production of silk was from the silk worm, scientifically known as Bombyx mori, which originated from China and that the species of the i...