In addition to shipping millions of tonnes of food from Ukraine, the initiative also envisages the export of fertiliser needed by the world’s farmers.
Ukraine has raised its outlook for this year’s harvest, forecasting it will bring in 10 per cent more crops despite Russia’s continuing invasion.
Food is urgently needed on the world market – especially in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The UN recently warned of the biggest famine in decades.
“Evidenced by the extreme weather conditions which have increased natural disasters such as heat waves, flooding, desert encroachment, loss of forests.”
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that the Horn of Africa is experiencing one of the worst hunger crises of the last 70 years.
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Mr Adetoyi explained that the goal was to tackle and control pests and diseases that were capable of reducing the quality and quantity of cocoa produced in the State.
The commissioner said 52,000 of the 150,000 hectares of land cultivated were infected with blight resulting in 2,000 farmers losing N18bn worth of potatoes.
Messrs Maigari and Mohammed are students of Government College, Gashua.
Russia has welcomed the first shipment of grain from the port of Odesa on Ukraine’s Black Sea coast as a “positive’’ development.
The commitment became imperative following mutual suspicion between herders and members of their host communities.
