Nigeria loses 6.8m tonnes of yams annually – Osinbajo

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday regretted that Nigeria loses 40 per cent of the 17 million tonnes of yams it produces annually to storage and processing problems.
According to a statement, the Vice-President spoke during the virtual inauguration and handing over of the 200,000-capacity yam storage facility at the Zaki Biam International Yam Market in Benue State.
“Post-harvest losses have been the bane of agricultural production in Nigeria. Nigeria produces 17 million tonnes of yams annually, but loses up to 40 per cent on account of inadequate storage and processing facilities,” Osinbajo was quoted as saying.

He said the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), was excited about the inauguration of the facility because “a major concern for him has been that the COVID-19 crisis does not in any way disturb agriculture and the food supply chain.
“That we are able to commission this project in the midst of the pandemic is especially heart-warming for him.”
Apart from the two units of warehouses with a combined capacity to store 200,000 tubers of yam in the shared facility in Benue, the VP noted that “there is the re-construction of 660 units of stalls/sheds, construction of a Police/market administrative building, construction of eight units of public toilets, provision of solar-powered borehole with an overhead tank, construction of internal roads with drainage and installation of solar street lights.”

Osinbajo commended the Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, “for his leadership and the solid support he has given to this project and to congratulate him on this commissioning of this game changing project.”

http://www.davidotokiblog.com.ng/2020/06/nigeria-loses-68m-tonnes-of-yams.html

Buhari and his APC crew alone eats up to 95% of yams in nigeria, They took over from where Pdp left it.
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To fulani herdsmen...don't be scared.mention name.

No storage! No credit facilities! No good roads! To get loan na by connections! What exactly is the government doing for the common man?



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What this is saying is that with the newly commissioned 200,000 facility, we can now improve in our storage and ensure our focus on becoming the full basket if the world

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Food storage is very important anywhere in the world. This is a very good one by this administration and I congratulate the people of Benue State because its going to increase commercial activities in the area.

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Davidtolu12:
Nigeria loses 6.8m tonnes of yams annually – Osinbajo

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday regretted that Nigeria loses 40 per cent of the 17 million tonnes of yams it produces annually to storage and processing problems.
According to a statement, the Vice-President spoke during the virtual inauguration and handing over of the 200,000-capacity yam storage facility at the Zaki Biam International Yam Market in Benue State.
“Post-harvest losses have been the bane of agricultural production in Nigeria. Nigeria produces 17 million tonnes of yams annually, but loses up to 40 per cent on account of inadequate storage and processing facilities,” Osinbajo was quoted as saying.

He said the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), was excited about the inauguration of the facility because “a major concern for him has been that the COVID-19 crisis does not in any way disturb agriculture and the food supply chain.
“That we are able to commission this project in the midst of the pandemic is especially heart-warming for him.”
Apart from the two units of warehouses with a combined capacity to store 200,000 tubers of yam in the shared facility in Benue, the VP noted that “there is the re-construction of 660 units of stalls/sheds, construction of a Police/market administrative building, construction of eight units of public toilets, provision of solar-powered borehole with an overhead tank, construction of internal roads with drainage and installation of solar street lights.”

Osinbajo commended the Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, “for his leadership and the solid support he has given to this project and to congratulate him on this commissioning of this game changing project.”

http://www.davidotokiblog.com.ng/2020/06/nigeria-loses-68m-tonnes-of-yams.html

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Create more yam storage facilities

I send a big weldone and good achievement to the governor Ortom of Benue and also thank VP osinbajo for allowing himself to commission this gigantic project in Benue

We are getting to the stage of attaining self sufficiency in food production if more facilities like this are put in place. A step in the right direction from the Government

Oga o

On agriculture, buhari has failed the country.

Good achievement from benue government.
I was in zaki biam for four months.
Yam plenty there.
I have seen plenty yams also in igbeti, igboho - okeogun oyo state.

Nigerian government and their contractors are big fraud,this project is largely uncompleted and I know millions if not billions is budgeted for it.
No access road to the market,inside the market erosion is carving out one side of the market,no police station as reported,no modern toilet,this people are liars ooo

That's a lot

That's beautiful.

Mere commissioner have spoken