Activist Advocates Organic Food Production, Consumption As GRAVC Visits FAS Eco Farms In Kaduna

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By Frederick Peters, KADUNA

NEWSDAILYNIGERIA: An activist on Organic Agricultural food production has advocated for production and consumption of organic farm produce as against inorganic and Genetically motivated organisms ( GMO) to ensure the wellbeing of Nigerians and the general public.

The call was made over the weekend during a visit by the Grassroot Agricultural Value Chain Investment Limited ( GRAVC) under the EasyLife Grassroot Development Empowerment project, to FAS Eco Farms Limited in Kaduna

Speaking the CEO of FAS Eco Farms Limited, HRH Oba OluwaFemi shuton, Sarkin Yoruba, Gonin Gora and Hakimi Kujama said ” as a farmer activist, ” I will not allow anything inorganic or GMO to cross my eye, I will fight it

He said ” Nigerians need to stay green to stay alive,

” so today I’m happy to welcome GRAVC EasyLife team to our factory/ farm, we have organic fertilizers of different varieties, we produce different organic rabbit feeds, chicken feeds and lots more.”

Describing the visit by Easy life Team” I’m so happy that Easy life came to visit me, at least they are showing people the way out, and am proud to be part of Easy life and in anything and any means I will support Easy life

He said they hope to collaborate in the areas of materials (products) information sharing, research and interactions among others

Similarly, the National coordinator, GRAVC EASYLIFE, Ekundayo Joseph Jolaoluwa, said the essence of the visit is to ” expose Nigerian farmers to organic food products, because that’s the way out, until we turn to organic, we won’t get it right

• so am trying to make them see the reasons why we need to return to natural things, and to let them see the production and how it works, let them see the reality of it, the truth is that chemical fertilizers have strong effects on our health, that’s why we have the high rates of cancer and the likes, in the increase, that’s why we are fighting on this issue to make sure that a lot of people go to organic fertilizers and foods, because that’s the way forward

” and you can see the joy in our people having the privilege to see and be exposed to such opportunities, and that’s what we’re really driving at GRAVC EasyLife “

Dayo said with the visit, they hope to sustain the partnership ” the partnership will continue, you can see that he has started his FAS organic fertilizers, you can see testimony for Jos and other states, because we earlier sent the sample of the fertilizer for test run and now you can hear the testimonies about the organic fertilizer, because it has dual functions, it improves the soil and secondly, fights any germs and pests threatening plants” he stressed

Also, the Branch Head, Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Corporation ( NAIC,) Aminu Isa Bello, describing the visit to FAS Eco farm as ” wonderful, and very impressive, I can tell you it’s the first time visiting the farm and I had the opportunity to introduce our services at NAIC”

” we saw for ourselves how the CEO and HRH left his palace to work in his farm, at least to show how very important Agriculture is, and also encourage us and Nigerian youths on how to go into organic agriculture and impact such knowledge on others and future generation.”

He further called on government at all levels and spirited Nigerians to support and collaborate with farms like this in enhancing natural or organic food production

” You know Agriculture is the backbone of every thing, so government has to come in terms of helping them through easy loan facility, you know, if the FAS CEO, is able to get intervention from the Federal and State government, you can imagine what the number of his workforce would be,”

He then called on the government to come to the aid of FAS farms and others, with easy loan facilities to overcome their several challenges .