OSOGBO – The Osun Agricultural Development Project (ADP) says it is collaborating with agricultural research institutes to enhance animal and food production in the country.
The ADP’s Project Manager, Mr Mukaila Omisore, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Osogbo on Thursday.
Omisere said that ADP was equally committed to the provision of adequate advisory services to farmers to encourage agricultural activities in the state.
He said that ADP was working with the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria (CRIN), Ibadan, in its adaptive research activities on improved agro-forestry, food crops and livestock production in the country. [eap_ad_1] The project manager said an agro-forestry research carried out by CRIN had produced a variety of cocoa that would yield fruits earlier than the old types.
“The research institute has produced a cocoa variety that will mature in three years and you know that will definitely facilitate improved and increased cocoa production by our farmer.’’
Omisere said that the farmers, the research institutes and the ADP would come together to reach a conclusion on the research works.
He said that ADP was working with farmers to fight stem borers, a crop disease that attacks the crops’ stem and prevent them from producing grains, especially maize.
Omisore said adaptive research had been able to provide a solution to the problem and that agriculture extension officers of the ADP had been reaching out to farmers in parts of the state on how to tackle the problem.
He explained that the same advisory services were being rendered by the project to livestock farmers through its extension officers. (NAN)
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