This sorry state of the nation is just one out of many. All the previous budgetary allocations to Agriculture and the directorate of employment for over 30 years are yet to address this gross national catastrophe.
The United Nations Environmental Programme, UNEP, has lamented that
the Nigerian government spent about $1 billion on importation of tomato
paste.
The African Regional Coordinator of UNEP, Dr. Richard Munang, who
made the revelation, weekend, during the official inauguration of the
Nigeria branch of Ecosystem-Based Adaptation for Food Security Assembly,
EBAFOSA, also noted that over 75 per cent of tomatoes were wasted in
the country because of lack of storage facilities.
He expressed regrets that about 240 million people in the continent
go to bed hungry and that malnutrition was high, affecting nearly 200
million people which in turn resulted in the death of over 50 per cent
of children below five years.
source: www.vanguardngr.com
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