There is increasing attention to producing agro-allied products locally to sustain food security and enhance good nutrition, especially if the talk about ending hunger and reducing poverty in Nigeria is to be achieved.
With a focus now on home-grown alternatives to achieve this purpose, it may not be long before the nation begins to witness a drive towards sustainable processes that ensures local agro-industries become pivotal to the country’s entire agricultural value chain. x
Experts have reiterated that meticulous and phased implementation of the Backward Integration Policy (BIP) of the Federal Government would not only boost local content utilisation, import substitution but also enhance job creation potentialities of agro-allied industries, increase the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and ensure food security and industrial growth.