Food Security

YOUTH EMPOWERMENT IN AGROPENUERAIL SECTOR.

Published

3 years ago

October 6, 2022

Akindele Faleye

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UNEMPLOYMENT
In Nigeria, the unemployment rate is about 33.3% . While about 219 Universities and many Polytechnics are churning out yet thousands annually into unemployment. At this juncture, there is the need to Redefine the Entrepreneurial Education in line with the agricultural sectoral demands. Agriculture has been the largest employer of labour overtime with about 55% providing about 22% yield of the national Food supplies. The Pre harvest Agricultural productions are mostly on subsistence level with no adequate Post harvest (Processing ) handling .resulting in wastages ( about 40% )
Food Insecurity in West Africa ( 424.4million population ) was as a result of little or dismal attention placed on Post harvest operations(Processing ) by farmers and other stakeholders in Food industries . Making the region to be import depended.
The Federal and State governments must play a pivotal role as a platform to train and build capacity of the teeming youthful population , the unemployed / underemployed graduates and other Food handlers in the Sustainable Food Security and Value Chain Development. Nigeria is blessed with landmass of about 93million square kilometres 71% is cultivable while only 38% is cultivated.
Limitless employment opportunities abounds for the teeming youthful population in both the pre harvest and post harvest Agricultural activities which are : Handling, Storage, Processing, Packaging, Distribution and Marketing. It is asserted with good authority that without good and result oriented Post harvest value chain the whole efforts put into pre harvest farming will be useless.

THE RUDIMENTARY ETHICS OF FOOD PROCESSING.
To be globally competitive in Food Processing there are “Ethics ” that will result in International Best Practices if sequencetailly adopted. eg
-Water treatment , it is globally recognised that poor water quality will produce poor quality products. hence the need for adequate understanding of water treatment.

Food management system – this includes Food laws, Personal Hygiene, Hygienic manufacturing practice and utensils etc
Food Preservation – for longer shelve life
Food Packaging – various packaging functions exisit as for mechanical handling, ,Prevention against natural elements eg oxygen, Moisture, temperature as well as aesthetics values enhancement etc
Quality control – Quality assurance
Cost control
Risk Management – HACCP. ETC ETC
FOOD PROCESSING OPERATIONS
Application of various Unit Operations ( equipment ) in food processing that will convert the raw food crops materials into manufactured and bye – products eg Filtration, Distillation, Mixing, Pasteurization, Cooling, Milling etc.
Avenues for agroprenuerial activities are limitless such as :
Stock piling Food crops / stuff for sale due to seasonality of production and irregularities in agricultural products Poduce are usually procure at peak seasons when prices are cheap to be sold at off season at higher prices thereby creating consumers satisfaction and ensuring more jobs in distribution and marketing activities.
‘ Others include sales of Agrochemicals and other farming imputs.
–Primary Processing as in Processing of roots , tubers and cereals crops into dried chips and flours. Such as Garri processing, Starch, Beverages and others. Fisheries, Poultry, Animal husbandry and feed mills are other avenues for agroprenuerial activities. Further more on the primary Processing we have Smoked dried fish Fruits and vegetables Processing and packaging for exportation.
In more advanced Food Processing ,we have production of concentrate from fruits vegetables and cereal . eg from Soghium we have glucose powder or syrup, flavour concentrate from Orange, peach, Strawberry etc. Malted barley is brewed into alcoholic beverages. .
Provision of services such as Consultancy or advisory services in agro allied industries.
— Machinery and equipment maintenance, leasing and sales to stakeholders in agro allied.
— The youths are very essential in the road map to Post harvest management they could be direct agency for promotion in the sector.

SUGGESTIONS
■ A veritable youthful catchment area into capacity building in sustainable development in Food security is National Youth Service Corp. (NYSC) The Skill Aquisition Entrepreneurial Development (SAED) should be made compulsory for participants just as it’s done in a Middle East country where the youths are conscripted into defence sector , today they are a reference in that regards.
■ The Core Working Group ( CWG) must be reappraised for optimum contributions in the thematic areas of Education, Health and Nutrition .

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FOOD SECURITY

YOUTH EMPOWERMENT IN AGROPENUERAIL SECTOR.
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Food management system – this includes Food laws, Personal Hygiene, Hygienic manufacturing practice and utensils etc
Food Preservation – for longer shelve life
Food Packaging – various packaging functions exisit as for mechanical handling, ,Prevention against natural elements eg oxygen, Moisture, temperature as well as aesthetics values enhancement etc
Quality control – Quality assurance
Cost control
Risk Management – HACCP. ETC ETC
FOOD PROCESSING OPERATIONS
Application of various Unit Operations ( equipment ) in food processing that will convert the raw food crops materials into manufactured and bye – products eg Filtration, Distillation, Mixing, Pasteurization, Cooling, Milling etc.
Avenues for agroprenuerial activities are limitless such as :
Stock piling Food crops / stuff for sale due to seasonality of production and irregularities in agricultural products Poduce are usually procure at peak seasons when prices are cheap to be sold at off season at higher prices thereby creating consumers satisfaction and ensuring more jobs in distribution and marketing activities.
‘ Others include sales of Agrochemicals and other farming imputs.
–Primary Processing as in Processing of roots , tubers and cereals crops into dried chips and flours. Such as Garri processing, Starch, Beverages and others. Fisheries, Poultry, Animal husbandry and feed mills are other avenues for agroprenuerial activities. Further more on the primary Processing we have Smoked dried fish Fruits and vegetables Processing and packaging for exportation.
In more advanced Food Processing ,we have production of concentrate from fruits vegetables and cereal . eg from Soghium we have glucose powder or syrup, flavour concentrate from Orange, peach, Strawberry etc. Malted barley is brewed into alcoholic beverages. .
Provision of services such as Consultancy or advisory services in agro allied industries.
— Machinery and equipment maintenance, leasing and sales to stakeholders in agro allied.
— The youths are very essential in the road map to Post harvest management they could be direct agency for promotion in the sector.

Www.wufasagronet.com

……@WufasAgronet, we don’t know more than Food.

 ✅Earned  'FAO'  Top  Fan  barge .
 ✅Member NAAJ, IFAJ  & AFAN.

Food management system – this includes Food laws, Personal Hygiene, Hygienic manufacturing practice and utensils etc
Food Preservation – for longer shelve life
Food Packaging – various packaging functions exisit as for mechanical handling, ,Prevention against natural elements eg oxygen, Moisture, temperature as well as aesthetics values enhancement etc
Quality control – Quality assurance
Cost control
Risk Management – HACCP. ETC ETC
FOOD PROCESSING OPERATIONS
Application of various Unit Operations ( equipment ) in food processing that will convert the raw food crops materials into manufactured and bye – products eg Filtration, Distillation, Mixing, Pasteurization, Cooling, Milling etc.
Avenues for agroprenuerial activities are limitless such as :
Stock piling Food crops / stuff for sale due to seasonality of production and irregularities in agricultural products Poduce are usually procure at peak seasons when prices are cheap to be sold at off season at higher prices thereby creating consumers satisfaction and ensuring more jobs in distribution and marketing activities.
‘ Others include sales of Agrochemicals and other farming imputs.
–Primary Processing as in Processing of roots , tubers and cereals crops into dried chips and flours. Such as Garri processing, Starch, Beverages and others. Fisheries, Poultry, Animal husbandry and feed mills are other avenues for agroprenuerial activities. Further more on the primary Processing we have Smoked dried fish Fruits and vegetables Processing and packaging for exportation.
In more advanced Food Processing ,we have production of concentrate from fruits vegetables and cereal . eg from Soghium we have glucose powder or syrup, flavour concentrate from Orange, peach, Strawberry etc. Malted barley is brewed into alcoholic beverages. .
Provision of services such as Consultancy or advisory services in agro allied industries.
— Machinery and equipment maintenance, leasing and sales to stakeholders in agro allied.
— The youths are very essential in the road map to Post harvest management they could be direct agency for promotion in the sector.

Food Security

CHARACTERISTICS OF GOOD DETERGENT

Published

3 weeks ago

October 3, 2025

Akindele Faleye

CHARACTERISTICS OF GOOD DETERGENT
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DETERGENTS used for washing in industries should have the following characteristics.

-Ability to loosen organic matters eg. Soil etc. (organic dissolving power)

-Good rinsing power.
-Adequate wetting power to allow detergent to penetrate the deposit acting quickly and efficiently.
-Good sequestering power – removal of mineral deposits eg. Calcium, magnesium.
-Emulsifying power – fragmenting oil into tiny particles.
-Adequate germicidal power to sterilized dirty detergent solutions.
-Ability to dissolve alkali solutions precipitate of calcium and magnesium salt.
-It should not be corrosive.
-It should posses good buffering and saponifying powers.

The above characters may not be contained in a single detergent but if blended with others rich in some of the characters, a good result may be achieved.

MAJOR SOURCES OF DETERGENTS.
{Alkalis} – Caustic soda is the basic ingredient of detergent however,
there could be addition of other additives to give a property to the detergent. Other basic ingredients are Soda ash, Sodium silicate and others as seen above.

SEQUESTERING AGENT.
This is the action of polyphosphate in precipitation of calcium and magnesium salts in water creating additional wetting agent and polyphosphate to assist sequestration this would constitute most effective and economical clean-in-place detergent for brewing cleanings.

WETTING AGENT.
Known generally as synthetic detergent, Wetting agents are classified into 3 major types :An-ionic and Cat-ionic wetting agents.
The An-ionc type is commonly used for detergent formulation eg. Sulphated alcohols alkyl or aryl sulphonates. Non-ionic are mostly the polyethylonic oxide. On blending of both an ionic and catonic the result may be excessive foaming. It also processes good wetting, dispersing and rinsing power.

STERILISING AGENT.
Alkalis porcess sterilizing power, which increases with pH and temperature.

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Food Security

SEASONINGS. FLAVORS. FOOD INGREDIENTS.

Published

3 months ago

August 6, 2025

Akindele Faleye

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✔FLAVORS
BAKERY & PASTRY FLAVORS
*Vanilla flavor
*Condensed milk flavor
*Butter scotch flavor
*Enzyme chocolate flavor
*Enzyme butter flour
*Milk flavor
*Coconut flavor

✔ CONFECTIONERY & CANDY FLAVORS
*Strawberry flavor
*Chocolate flavor
*Orange flavor
*Butter vanilla flavor
*Banana flavor
*Mango flavor
*Lemon flavor
*Milk flavor
*Vanilla flavor
*Apple flavor
*Mixed berry flavor
*Coconut flavor
*Caramel flavor
*Honeydew flavor
*Condensed milk flavor
*Peanut flavor
*Cheese flavor

✔BEVERAGE FLAVORS
*Apple flavor
*Coconut flavor
*Caramel flavor
*Mango flavor
*Lemon flavor
*Banana flavor
*Pineapple Flavor
*Orange flavor *Strawberry flavor
*Natural Ginger flavor
*Malta flavor
*Grape flavor
*Raspberry flavor

✔ENCAPSULATED FLAVORS
*Strawberry flavor
*Raspberry flavor
*Mixed Berry flavor
*Orange flavor
*Apple flavor
*Banana flavor

✔BEVERAGES (CONCENTRATES, COMPOUNDS, BASES AND EMULSIONS) :
*Pineapple
*Lemon
*Ginger
*Cola
*Black currant
*Orange
*Strawberry
*Chapman
*Apple
*Banana
*Mixed fruit
*Cocopina

✔SAVOURY FLAVORS
*Beef flavor
*Chicken flavor
*Tomato flavor
*Cheese flavor
*Seafood flavor
*BBQ flavor
*Roasted flavor
*Smoked fish flavor
*Suya flavor
*Peanut flavor
*Roasted Chicken flavor
*Sardine flavor
*Smoke flavor

✔MILK POWDER :
*Fat filled milk powder
*Skimmed milk powder
*Full cream powder
*Flavored milk powder
*Butter milk powder

✔ICE-CREAM, YOGHURT & DAIRY FLAVORS :
*Yogurt flavor
*Vanilla flavor
*Strawberry flavor
*Banana flavor
*Mixed Berry flavor
*Chocolate flavor
*Cherry flavor
*Mango flavor

✔SEASONINGS:
FOOD SEASONINGS
*Beef seasoning
*Chicken seasoning
*Tomato seasoning
*Cheese seasoning
*BBQ Seasoning
*Seafood seasoning
*Noddles seasoning
*Pasta seasoning
*Jollof seasoning

✔SPICES :
*Cinnamon powder
*Onion powder
*Ginger powder
*Garlic powder
*Paprika powder
*Nutmeg powder

✔FOOD INGREDIENTS :
*Fat Replacer (Handisol – 25)
*Sweetener

✅OTHERS :
*Real meat reaction pastes
*Vegemeat for sausage roll
*Spice flavor oil
*Liquid and oil soluble flavor
*Soup and gravy mixes
*Ice cream premix
*BBQ sauce
*Tomato /Pizza sauce etc.

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Food Security

SECURITY PATHWAYS IN RELATION TO SUSTAINABLE FOOD SECURITY OF A NATION.

Published

7 months ago

April 10, 2025

Akindele Faleye

Good governance is predicated on ensuring the actualisation of the various security architecture of a Nation. The political barometer is also monitored through the efficiency of the security pathways which are :
INTERNAL SECURITY, INFORMATION/COMMUNICATION. , FOOD SECURITY, HEALTH ,EDUCATION, ELECTRICITY, TRANSPORTATION AND INDUSTRIAL GROWTH.
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All the above are the essential security systems that can produce and provide QUALITY POPULATION through good and quality SUPERVISION

✅NATIONAL Security of life and properties is the (numero uno) number one responsibility of the Head of government be it President, Head of state and others. The mandate to secure life and property is paramount , they control and command the apparatus of security such as adequate Policing, effective Armed forces- Army for protection against external or internal aggression. Customs / Immigration for vigilant boarders patrol to prevent smuggling and immigration control amongst many others . Equipping them with weapons, Aircrafts, Vehicles, Boats etc.
For effective surveillance. In tackling the menace of bandits and kidnappers who have taken over the forest prohibiting farming activities . Armed Forest Guards / Rangers should be introduced.

INFORMATION/COMMUNICATION.
The entire world is in information age.
The constitution clearly stipulate that every person shall be entitled to freedom of expression, freedom to hold opinions and to receive as well as to impact ideas and information.
However, it is the opinion of this writer that freedom be guided with secured intent to prevent abuse that may result in conflicts and war through hateful and unguided utterances.
The most acceptable form of communication is such that promote humane, responsible and patriotic reportage upholding the concept of discipline and promoting values nationally and internationally.
A lot of opportunity mostly untapped abound for investment in Information and communication like Print, Electronic and ICT media.
For industrial growth, information through advertisement, publication and social media is vital for public awareness.

FOOD SECURITY
Whether one eat to live or live to eat is a matter of semantics the bottom – line is Food is the main sustainace of bodies and souls. The importance of food cannot be over emphasised . knowing this fact of life has made the developed world to appropriately plan for provision of quality food for their citizens. Provision of food is prioritize in their national agenda. It is on this note that the United Nation’s clarion call to others in the world to emulate the culture of Sustainable Food Security ensuring the Tripple A(s). of AVAILABILITY, ACCEPTABLITY and AFFORDABILITY. ( UN 2030 food security agenda) of good quality food for the underdeveloped countries who are import dependent on basic food items such as Rice, Sugar, Dairy , Beverages etc .
Presently, Nigeria is revolutionising agrioprenuerial activities, it’s hoped that the present policies on agriculture will not be Summersaulted. The Maputo declaration on allocation of minimum 10% of the country’s annual budget must go to agriculture. Food must be made a constitutional right for all. The authority must take time to support Micro and Small scale Agroprenuerails activities to adapt to climate change. Agroprenuerail activities is the surest way to lift hundreds of millions out of hunger, poverty, conflict and deaspiration.

HEALTH CARE
Health is wealth – Primary Health care delivery must be taken to the grassroot levels, while Rural Health care moblisation be made available and effective all must be well equipped with vaccines, drugs, consumables and other biologicals.
— Ensure maintenance of standard by private sector through effective monitoring.
— Tapping into Herbs Processing , local medical herbs be Researched into by National Institute of Pharmaceutical RnD. In Collaboration with Fed Mins. of Science and Technology.
— Integration of alternative medicine into health care.
— Health insurance scheme must be intensified on .
— Stemming of illegal importation of smuggled fake drugs and illegal drug manufacturing in the country.

EDUCATION
A Society, Community and Nation is as good as the percentage of her literary population. The various levels of education are Primary , Secondary and teriary education 6-3-3-4 .Education must attract appropriate budget at all time. Education is being administered by Public and Private participation at all levels. The special education must receive attention by provision of special equipment such as braille machine, audiometer etc.

ELECTRICITY
To the chagrin of the unsuspecting consumers and Contrary to claim of the generation companies that generation capacity has improved to 7000 MW , the actual has been fluctuating between 2500 -3500 MW.(April 2019)
The idea of mono grid must be jettison while the legislation be relaxed to accommodate Private participations in generation. While effort must be intensified on the Green Bond of #10.97bn raise in December 2018. for financing of SOLAR energy.
Industrial development is unachievable without steady supply of electricity. A green belt of
Industrial Parks on Green energy is recommended in all the States of federation.this will sustain industrial activities that will promote growth.

TRANSPORTATION
This sector is an indispensable catalyst for stimulating economic, social, political and strategic/defence development of a Nation. All the National Development plans must accord the transport sector very high priority. In the formulation of National Transport policy, there must be defined objectives such as economic efficiency and coordinated development plan.
All forms of transportation system are embraced in Nigeria. Motor ,Railway transportation, inland waterways, aviation terminal and handling facilities seaports, airports and riverports including other ancillary facilities.
The administration of Transportation is vested in both Fed. Ministry of Works and Housing (Fed. Highways – Interstate roads Construction and maintenance) and State Ministry of Works/Transport (interstate roads while LG is responsible for Urban and Rural roads Construction and maintenance.
Aviation Ministry for Civil Aviation, Airports Development Management and Metrological services.
Internationally, the railway system is more affordable and relatively saver the frequency in Nigeria must be upgraded not scanty show up as is now the case.

INDUSTRIAL GROWTH
The economic growth rate ( 2019) is 2.1% ,this development is not unconnected with the dismal performances of the various indices above. eg the manufacturing growth rate is presently less than 7% although the Fedreral government set a 10.6% goal in 2017.which was to be driven by SME. Productivity is the only stimulant for Industrial growth. Farming output is barely about 22% mostly subsistence. .about 55% of work force is absorbed by agriculture. The major farming communities in North East, Middle belt downwards to the southern section are being sacked either Boko Haram terrorist or Pasteuralist /Farmers conflicts and banditry.
The various activities as enumerated in this writeup are all depended on Food security system. FOOD SECURITY MUST BE IN THE FRONT BURNER TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS. IN OTHER SEGMENTS.

CONCLUSION
— FOOD Security issues must be in the front burner of government’s agenda. Since it encompasses all other activities.
— The effectiveness of other parasatal must be ensured through adequate supervision.
— TO PREVENT IMMINENT DANGER OF FAMINE. Forest Guards (armed) must be appropriately deployed to secure the large expanse of the forest for Farming activities.
— Indigenous Reserch and Development on local Technology be improved on.
— Electricity generation from Green Energy source should be encouraged in the Industrial parks.
— Food Security system must be made a CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT for all the citizenry.

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