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Blight disease threatening potato production-Lalong

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Governor of Plateau state, Simon Lalong has urged the Federal Government to address the issue of late blight disease, which is endangering the nation’s potato production and value chain.

Lalong made the call at the 45th regular meeting of the National Council on Agriculture and Rural Development, which was held in Jos, the state capital, under the theme “Strengthening Agricultural Value Chain Development Processes for Food Security and Economic Development.”

The summit, according to the governor, will not only address a crucial component of the Nigerian economy, but also develop frameworks that would transform agricultural products into actual financial derivatives.

Lalong urged the Federal Government to help the farmers by providing compensation for their enormous losses, which he claimed totaled billions of Naira, as a result of the disease that is destroying more and more potato farms.

He said: “There is no better time than now for stakeholders to convene a meeting to brainstorm on best strategies and policies to tackle hunger which is threatening the general well-being of Nigerians.

“Let me use this opportunity to draw the attention of the Honourable Minister to the increased incidences of the devastation of potato farms by potato blight disease which has almost wiped out the existing low yielding and degenerated seeds.

“We request that the Federal Government come to our aid by paying some compensation for the huge losses running into billions.

“We also ask for the upgrade of the National Root Crops Research Institute, Kuru outstation here in the State to a full-fledged Potato Research Institute.

“This will enable the breaking of new frontiers in varieties research, seed production, the introduction of blight-tolerant and disease-resistant varieties, farmers’ education, and linkages with other local and international institutions, among others.

“We have conducted research which indicates that potato which is only produced within the Central and Northern Senatorial District can now be grown in the 17 Local Government Areas of the State.

“The State as of today produces about 90 per cent of the potato consumed in the country.

“Under our partnership with the African Development Bank, potato farming has been escalated from a subsistence activity to a large-scale activity that is aimed at supplying the domestic market and exporting.

“We have completed a Tissue Culture Laboratory in Mangu as well as built processing centres and warehouses in various local governments.

“Similarly, we have built market stalls in various centres to make the marketing of the product very easy and cost-effective,” said the Governor.

According to Lalong, the Northern Governors’ Forum had interfaced with the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) and its parastatals on the issue of value addition, extension services and education as well as provision of timely farm inputs to the farmers.

He said that the problems bedeviling the agricultural sector cut across states and the entire country and need to be resolved without delay.

“The Northern Governors are working with the Federal Government and security agencies to ensure that banditry, terrorism and general criminality, which is threatening farming activities, particularly in the North are stopped.”

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