Thursday, 10 December 2015

Don Proffers Solution To Post-harvest Losses

A don with the Federal University of Technology (FUT), Minna, Prof. (Mrs.) Zinash Delebo Osunde, has suggested measures to avoid post-harvest losses by farmers and promote  employment generation.

Prof Osunde of the Department of Agricultural and Bio-resources Engineering of the university said to avoid the losses, entrepreneurs should be ready to invest in agricultural processing  industry and mass production of  equipment developed by researchers in the country.
She gave this advice when she delivered the Inaugural Lecture of the university entitled ‘Agricultural  Product Value Addition for Food  Security, Job Creation and Poverty  Alleviation, at the Caverton Lecture  Hall, Main Campus of the university.
She stated that post-harvest losses can be reduced to the  barest minimum if more entrepreneurs invest in improved post-harvest technologies to mitigate the situation.
She further stated that processing, storage technologies and mass production of equipment developed by researchers should be given encouragement to avoid losses associated with agricultural practice in the country.

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