Lagos Govt. plans to manage agricultural wastes
The Lagos State Government on Friday
said that it was planning a coordinated
efforts to effectively manage agricultural
wastes from its rural communities.
Mr Kehinde Bamigbetan, the Special
Adviser to the Governor on Community
Development and Communications, said
this in an interview with the News
Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos.
Bamigbetan said that the existing waste
disposing system in the rural areas was
bad and pose health hazard to people in
the communities.
According to him, the state government,
through the Ministry of Agriculture,
would support community agriculture
and help to coordinate the disposal of
wastes generated from agricultural
activities.
“Communities that are practicing home
agriculture have been in existence for a
long time.
“On a street you can have about ten
people practicing fishing and poultry
farming in a communal manner.
“Liquid and solid wastes are generated
from such farms and are often released
into the environment thereby making
the community unhygienic.
“What that means is that such wastes can
endanger the health of the rural
dwellers,’’ Bamigbetan said.
He also disclosed that many farmers in
the state were being registered to be able
to benefit from the government
agricultural support programmes.
According to him, the state Ministry of
Agriculture will work closely with
farmers, especially those in poultry
section, to keep production figures with
a view to tract productivity of the state
agriculture sector.
Bamigbetan noted that the state has
invested a lot in the poultry section to be
able to lead other states in production of
eggs.
He expressed the hope that the effort
would stem the importation of eggs and
other poultry products from
neighbouring countries.
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