Nigeria: 'Good Environment Vital to Agricultural Development' - AllAfrica.com

Nasidi Adamu YahayaAbuja

The Federal Soldier Government have got got got restated that a good and healthy environment is critical for a virile agricultural sector in the country.

The curate of Environment, Housing and Urban Development, Mrs Halima Tayo Alao, made this known when she received ECOWAS Commissioner for Environment, Water Resources and Agriculture, Ousseni Salifou, in her business office in Capital Of Federal Republic Of Nigeria recently.

She maintained that land degradation, desertification and eroding are major challenges in realizing the goal, and Nigeria as a development state is, therefore, closely collaborating with other planetary federal agencies on the issue of clime alteration to guarantee that the state makes not endure its harmful effects.

She lamented that tons of garbage have continued to assault Nigerians ocular senses in many metropolises across the country, adding that "this presents a menace to tourism, thereby undermining the variegation of the economic system which authorities is promoting".

Mrs Alao added that the state of affairs is made worse by garbage presence in many metropolises with slum areas and hovels that look to withstand all measurements as new 1s springtime up as soon as the existent 1s are dislodged.

She said: "Blocked drains have continued to bring mayhem in implosion therapy of metropolises and communities at the slightest rainfall even as respective hectares of farming areas have been devastated by such as floods, places worth billions of naira destroyed and many people have been rendered homeless".

The curate also said entree to healthful and nutrient sanitation is yet to achieve the desired standard, noting that healthful installations stay a mirage to a huge bulk of Nigerians as many of them still utilize the shrub as their agency for body waste disposal.

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She called on the general populace to help themselves of written documents on assorted policies on sanitation and put into pattern the information contained therein, stating that the ministry is set to join forces with development spouses and other stakeholders to ship on monolithic enlightenment political campaign on nutrient and other facets of sanitation.

Mrs Alao also assured the ECOWAS commissioners that Federal Republic Of Nigeria was acute on international environmental policies that volition help her in developing the sector.

In his speech, Mr. Salifou encouraged the curate to go to the adjacent meeting of ECOWAS Environment curates coming up in Ouagadougou in order to validate the treaty approved by the meeting of ECOWAS heads of states.