Agriculture and Allied Employees’ Union of Nigeria, has asked the federal government to heed the warning given by Nigeria Meteorological Agency that the country may experience food scarcity due to low rainfall in 2015, The Punch reports.
His exact words as said on Wednesday, August 19 was: The states in the South-West, particularly Ekiti, have very low rainfall this year and it has started manifesting. So, our governments must invest in our dams, so that we can have irrigation projects that can respond to this kind of situation. My task is to ensure that agriculture is repositioned in the South-West, and we shall achieve that.
I am encouraging members of all the unions, including the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress, to invest in farming and we are receiving warm reception.Fayose’s stomach infrastructure policy has become a brand and we have to embrace it. The only alternative to our economic survival now is farming, which is food production, and we have to live by that reality.”
Oladele urged the federal government to seek alternative means of water supply to boost food production by investing hugely in irrigation projects across the country.
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