A professor of Food Science and Technology at the College of Agriculture, Bowen University, Iwo, Osun State, Bolanle Otegbayo, has called for value addition to indigenous crops to reduce post-harvest losses and ensure food security in the country. Prof. Otegbayo made the call during the eighth inaugural lecture of the university. She also called for value addition to indigenous crops through product development to reduce post-harvest losses. She added that value addition at household and industrial levels would ensure food security, nutrition security, increasing dignity of life to farmers, generate employment, which would contribute to the reduction in the social vices, such as substance abuse, thuggery, armed robbery, kidnapping and banditry plaguing the society. Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Joshua Ogunwole, represented by the Deputy Vice Chancellor (DVC), Prof. Oluwatosin Atobatele, said Otegbayo had set the pace in many ways.

Source: The Guardian December 10, 2021 03:28 UTC