BUK<\/a>), on entrepreneurship and climate adaptation towards addressing food security in Northern Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\nDr Beth Dunford, the AfDB Vice President of Agriculture, Human and Social Development, made this known on Wednesday when she visited the University Centre for Dry Land Agriculture in BUK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She said: \u201cI am very impressed with the track records of the centre in winning multiple grants and awards and also in terms of education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAgriculture needs to be transformed to provide food security, by using high-level science and technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe saw scientists working on improved varieties and soil testing to ensure that farmers are planting the right crops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe found out that with the intervention in 2023 through the National Agriculture Growth Scheme supported by AfDB, we were able to get a heat-tolerant wheat variety,\u201d she noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dunford said that such effort would help farmers to plant climate adaptive approved varieties of 150,000 hectres of wheat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She added that it would also increase yield from 2.8 metric tonnes to over 4 tonnes per hectre, apart from improving livelihood, innovation, entrepreneurship and food production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On his part, the Vice Chancellor of BUK, Prof. Sagir Adamu-Abbas, commended the AfDB President, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, for his support and contribution to agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Director, CDA, Prof. Jibrin Mohammed-Jibrin, said the centre was established in 2012 to improve livelihoods, resilience and sustainable use of natural resources in African dry lands through training and demand-driven research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe centre has won several grants for research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn our immediate environment, we are working with 22 adopted communities, we also work across the dry lands of Nigeria, West and Central Africa,\u201d he said. (NAN)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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