2021: Olubadan Says Irrigation Farming Will Curb Food Shortage in Nigeria

The Olubadan of Ibadan has urged the Federal Government and South-West governors to urgently adopt irrigation farming to overcome the projected food shortage in 2021, Nature News gathered.

This call was made by the Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Saliu Adetunji, and two traditional worshippers in Oyo State, Dr Biodun Agboola and Dr Fayemi Fakayode, at the installation ceremony of Fakayode as the Mogaji of Onibudo family at Oke Aremo, Yemetu, Ibadan.

Oba Adetunji, who was represented at the event by Chief Shina-Olatunji Aresa, the Mogaji of Okiti family in Ibadan, stated that “for Nigeria to avert food shortage in the new year efforts should be directed toward irrigation farming.

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“This will mitigate the effects of bad weather on planting while farmers should also be protected from criminals that attack and destroy their farms. “We should see that the time has come for us to realise that the way we practice farming here in the South-West Zone cannot sustain us.

“The food shortage projection is predicated on so many reasons ranging from bad weather, insecurity and largely the poor funding from the government,’’ the Olubadan stated.