NASSI Tasks FG On Farm Produce Storage

The Nigerian Association of Small Scale Industrialists (NASSI), has called on the Federal Government to design effective storage facilities to curb the excessive wastage of agricultural produce.

Hajiya Mariam Baba, the Information Officer of the association made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Abuja yesterday. Baba noted that unless effective storage facilities were put in place, a lot of agricultural produce would continue to perish.

“Majority of Nigerians are peasant farmers, unfortunately these farmers toil under the sun and under the rain to attend to their farms, the products of which mostly perish.

“Unfortunately, these items go to waste, they don’t translate to money. We are really losing employment and cash.

“So we must come up with an effective storage facility that will ensure that most of the agro-produce are not wasted,” she said.

According to her, there is hunger in the world yet Nigeria is wasting food; hence the need to come up with a programme to address this.