FEC Receives Organic Agriculture Policy For Adoption, Approval In Nigeria 

The Vice-President of Association of Organic Agriculture Practitioners of Nigeria and also the Country Coordinator of Ecological Organic Agriculture Initiative in Nigeria, Olugbenga Adeoluwa, has said that the organic agriculture in Nigeria policy has been sent to the Federal Executive Council (FEC) for approval and adoption.

Adeoluwa who disclosed this at the Annual General Meeting of the Association held on Monday in Abuja Nigeria’s, said the policy will address issues like production, processing, inputs, marketing, quality control, certification of organic products in the country.

Nigeria is on the good track as far as organic development is, because one of the indicators of a country doing well is having a policy in place that could support or that can support organic agriculture”.

Adeoluwa added, “And we are lucky in Nigeria, that although the country is young, as far as development of organic, not just globally but in Africa, but late year, December precisely, the dialogue of the stakeholders on organic policy in the country that was carried out by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in conjunction with ecological agriculture initiative in Nigeria, is moving. That’s a very good step”.

President of the association, Victor Idowu said organic agriculture relies mostly on what one can produce within the system, and does not depend more on external inputs.

He said it is a production system that every family, no matter how small their size is, can practise organic agriculture.