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Access to improved inputs, mechanisation as catalysts for food productivity | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News — Features — The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News


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Boosting food productivity per hectare through intensive agricultural practices has been described by agricultural scientists and technologists as the most potent way of revving up food production without much disruption to the ecosystem.
This follows moves around the world to tame deforestation as a major factor responsible for global warming and climate change.
Extensive agricultural practices have been pinpointed as a major driver opening up more forests for farmland, and in the process causing deforestation and fuelling climate change.
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But scientists have said, through various experiments and researches, that food productivity is possible without unnecessary opening up of more forests. Some scientists advocate agroforestry, where economic trees are intercropped with food crops while maintaining the forest biodiversity. ....

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Caught in the web: Killer herdsmen, floods overrun farms, destroy yields, insurance firms fail to lift hapless farmers


Caught in the web: Killer herdsmen, floods overrun farms, destroy yields, insurance firms fail to lift hapless farmers
The Punch
Published 15 July 2021
With only about five per cent of agricultural crops in Nigeria insured, operators see this as a threat to food security, OKECHUKWU NNODIM writes
The insurance of crops in Nigeria’s agricultural sector is low as most farmers across the country shy away from insuring their crops and produce.
Agro-insurers, government officials as well as farmers believe that it is vital to insure crops, particularly to forestall the devastating impact of adverse weather on crop production.
Operators in the sector see the about five per cent level of agriculture insurance in Nigeria as another potential threat to food security nationwide. ....

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