It infects crops from flowering until maturity. Maize and groundnut are particularly susceptible. One cannot see, smell or taste aflatoxin, yet both people and animals are very sensitive to it.
While acute exposure to aflatoxins can kill, prolonged exposure leads to impeded growth, liver disease, immune suppression and cancer, with women, children and the poor most vulnerable.
Few years ago, makers of animal feeds and other household consumables complained that the Nigerian maize and other oil seeds like groundnut were highly infected with aflatoxins, which forced many poultry farmers and feed millers to clamour for importation.
On Tuesday, stakeholders met at a workshop organised by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and Harvestfield Industries Limited to discuss the results of aflatoxin levels test in maize sampled nationwide under the Central Bank of Nigeria’s Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (CBN-ABP) 2020 wet season project.
Aflatoxins: Stakeholders commend HarvestField s Aflasafe for salvaging maize production
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Millions of liver cancer cases traced to consumption of aflatoxin infected foods — HarvestField
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Lafarge, Jabi Mall, Grand Pela, 31 other firms enjoying tax holiday in Nigeria (FULL LIST)
The Pioneer Status Incentive grants a tax holiday for companies working in industries considered not sufficiently developed enough in Nigeria but with favourable prospects.
The federal government gives companies in critical sectors of the economy tax holiday, also known as the Pioneer Status Incentive, to encourage and attract investment into sectors that could significantly impact development and deliver key benefits to the country.
The incentive, provided under the Industrial Development Income Tax Relief Act, is essentially a tax holiday that grants benefitting firms relief from the payment of corporate income tax for an initial period of three years, extendable for one or two additional years.