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The Institute of Agricultural Research and Training, (IAR&T) Ibadan, Oyo State has advised Governors and farmers in the Southwest region to embrace irrigation farming system without further delay.
Executive Director of the institute, Professor Veronica Obatolu disclosed this while declaring open a one-day consultation workshop on irrigation development with the theme “Farmer-led irrigation and agricultural water management in South West Nigeria: Panacea for climate change and food security.”
She noted that the need to embrace irrigation system in the region is necessary in view of shortage of rainfall and negative impact of drought on agricultural production in the region.