Soil health-answer to feeding Africa
Experts at the three-day West Africa Fertilizer and Agri-Business Conference which began here on Monday identified depletion of soil nutrients as one of the key challenges to food security on the African continent.
Eugine Rurangwa, Land and Water Officer at the UN-Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) African Regional Office noted there is the need for increasing current food production levels significantly to meet growing demands.
He observed that globally populations will approach nine billion, and the increasing demand for health and nutrition food will continue to increase and push humanity to….Read on
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