Food Security
STRENGTHENING FOOD SECURITY IN AFRICA (Nigeria) WITH GOVERMENT INTERVENTION THROUGH DEFORESTATION IN 2022-23.
FOOD SECURITY
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■Strength and Weaknesses of Agricultural Production/Processing
■-Constraints of Land Use Act.
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TAKING A PRISMATIC look on the glamour of Africa compared with other continents. The Area of Africa is about 30.37million/sqkm with 65% arable land, 40% of global gold reserve, 33 % of Diamond reserve , Africa ( Namibia ) has most fish rich coastline globally. Africa has a population of about 1.412311 billion (sept. '22) and culturally diverse in music, (West Africa has a population of about 424.4million, Nigeria >211million ) dancing, architectural sculpture with about 30,000 medicinal recipes and herbs also with projected estimate of youthful population of about 2.5billion by 2050.
All the above compaired with Area of China 9.6msqkm , USA of 9.0msqkm. and Europe 10.18msqkm.
However, Africa is blighted by forces limiting her capabilities to feed the Citizens making her import dependent. There’s enormous desertification in the northern hemisphere while the southern hemisphere is plagued by insecurity , caused by terrorism, ECOWAS and East Africa Community EAC While the SDAC – South Africa Dev. Community. is land constrained.
Currently one cannot undermine Ukraine / Russia war. Causing major albatross in food security.
The main strength of Nigeria’s Agrobusiness sector amongst others are fertile agricultural landmass with huge reservoir of human resources which could translate into high efficiency in production as in global standard if well articulated .
The Agroprenuerial promotions in 2022 and beyond must be made more vibrant to accommodate the drive for the revival of self sufficiency through diversification of Agricultural productions which will be enabled through Mechanisation, improved agronomy, Mitigation of Environmental Calamities such as fire, Climate change.,Flooding, Earthquakes, while the efficacy of AGROPROCESSING to attract sales and value premium shouldn’t be overlooked.
THE MAIN STRENGTH
Nigeria is endowed with abundance of landmass about 98.3million hectares(923,768 sqkm ) of fertile arable land. With very good soil and climate, one hectare of land can yield 8- 11 tons of farm produce of various classes of Food and Cash crops ,Fruits and vegetables, Integrated farming in Poultry and Animal husbandry etc.
The above is complimented with virile and vibrant youthful population of Human Capital Resources that can see her become a world power in diverse fora of life.
This is where all motivations should be placed and directed. Blessed still with experienced industrial practitioners trained locally and abroad during the Industrial boom era their experiences in Food production and processing must be exploited for National development.
THE WEAKNESSES
— Lack of adequate mechanised farming to engage with the fallowing 71% of cultivatable landmass. with only 38% cultivated.
- Unmotivated youthful population mostly unemployable due to Inadequate exposure in Entrepreneurial / Empowerment Agroprenuerial and ProcessingTechnology. The Federal Government financial inclusion for the youths in form of Entrepreneurial loans must be upheld.
— Vulnerability against the COVID -19 pandemic outbreak , INSECURITY– Insurgency , Terrorism, Kiddnappings, Banditry, Flooding, Cattles rustling, Herders/Farmers clashes , Robberies, Religous crisis, High profile corruption and other high end crimes. .
OPPORTUNITIES
— Nigeria is blessed with a huge population of over 211million which translate to a huge market.
— The large market that will be created through AFCFTA of which Nigeria is a member.
— The Population of West Africa is 424,352,680
— The global commodity market in Nigeria ‘s Palm oil, Cocoa, Rubber, Coffee, Sugar, Soybeans, Rice, Organic Fruits and vegetables. be invigorated.
GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION “DEFORESTATION “
With the vast landmass of Nigeria 98.3million hectares, ( 923,768sqkm ) only 38% is cultivated of the 71.2% cultivatable.
Some states are endowed with massive portion of the landmass such as Niger state with 76,363sqkm, Borno has 70,898sqkm , Taraba – 54473sqkm, Bauchi -45838sq km. Kogi -29838sqkm) All these compared with Lagos with only 3,345sqkm .
It is interesting to note that the five SouthWest states minus Lagos are having landmass of only about the size of Niger state with 76320sqkm . While the entire five South East states(29525sqkm) have landmass equal to that of Kogi State (29838 sqkm).
Deforestation should be considered in areas with wide areas of fallow landmass with agreement between the State/ Federal government (NOT FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ACQUISITION) for massive mechanised plantations of predominant Food and Cash crops
This will ensure self sufficiency coupled with massive stockpiling in storage silo of grains.
● In 2020 , Brazil deforested a very huge expance of land in the Amazon region for Soybeans meant for exportation. While Russia invested in 200MMT of wheat (Russia is a major exporter of wheat). Although currently at war with Ukraine thereby suspending farming activities with resultant hunger globally.
CONSTRAINTS TO AGRICULTURAL. GROWTH
Stakeholders in the agricultural sector have insisted that the Land Use Act is a major constraint to the development and growth of agriculture in Nigeria.
The Land Use Act formerly ( Land Use Decree)was promulgated on March 29 1978. It vests all land in the territory of each state (except Fed Govt Land ) solely in the Governor of the state.who will hold such land in trust for the people responsible for the allocation of the land in all urban areas to individuals residents in the state and to organisations for residential, agriculture and other purposes.
Similar powers in non- urban areas are conferred on Local Governments.
However, it should be noted that Agroprenuerial ( Production/Processing ) activities are the major catalyst to strengthening the economy and ensuring job creation.also to encourage Foreign Direct Investment.
Government should create the needed policies and regulatory environment to encourage the growth of the Agricultural sector.while support from the Development Banks are sorted
MECHANISATION
Agricultural mechanised farming nation is such that deploy 300 tractors on every 1000km of farmland. . This is where the Federal Government policy on agroprenuerial must shift towards. By ensuring the followings :
-■- Deforestation of criminals hibernations and hideouts turning same to mechanised organic farming in various Food and Cash crops.
–■- Reorientating the youthfulness into adventurism in agro allied oriented productions. The educational concept must be redefined to produce entrepreneurs not job seekers
-■– Nigeria is the highest producer of yam tubers in the entire world 62%. But amazingly with cutlass and hoes one can imagine if yam ridges could be mechanised.
–■ Africa is the largest producer of Cassava 55% in the world producing about 8 – 11 metric tons /hectare compared to Asia that produces 21mt per hectare.
— Aggressive, Commercial and Organic farming is it now .
-■- Massive jobs creation will be provided for the unemployed youths.
2023 AGRICULTURAL PERFORMANCE SURVEY .
■ The major criteria involved are the objective, Scope and Achievement of Agricultural projects with adequate monitoring procedures put in place to ascertain the planned achievements such as establishment of Crop monitoring and Early Warning system programmes coupled with feedback on market information on prices of Food periodically from various locations.
Lessons must be learnt from 2022 Agricultural Performance Survey through the reports and data of the Global partners
such as FEWS NET, WFP, GIZ, FAO etc.
■ Processing of Food crops add more attractive premium to sales value.
RAINFALL
This was discussed under the followings conditions:.
■ Availability, Occorrence ,Frequgency, Spatial and temporary distribution – all these determine failure or success of the season.
FLOODING — This is a perennial Occorrence in the riverine areas affecting plantations on river plains, houses and infrastructures with lives being lost , the effect could be mitigated by periodic dredging ,. and other environmental nuisance abatement programmes.
■-DEFORESTATION WILL CREATE VERITABLE TEMPLATE FOR MECHANISED FARMING THAT WILL CREATE MILLIONS OF EMPLOYMENT. The government agency for lanf clearing NALDA must be involved in this project.
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CHARACTERISTICS OF GOOD DETERGENT
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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SEASONINGS. FLAVORS. FOOD INGREDIENTS.
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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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SECURITY PATHWAYS IN RELATION TO SUSTAINABLE FOOD SECURITY OF A NATION.
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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