Vice-Chancellor of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Prof. Sidi Osho, has charged states and the Federal Government to protect the environment.
Osho also advocated care for the womenfolk in the country in order to ensure sustainable agricultural development.
The ABUAD vice chancellor said this on Thursday while delivering a keynote address at the First Professor Peter Adebola Okuneye Intervarsity Debate, organized by the Agricultural Economics Students’ Association of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State.
The debaters, who spoke on the topic, ‘Can agricultural production be sustainable through agricultural transformation agenda?,’ were drawn from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomosho; the University of Ibadan; Federal University of Technology, Akure; Obafemi Awolow University, Ile-Ife; Osun State University; Babcock University, Ilishan, Ogun State, and the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta.
Speaking on the topic, ‘Environmental challenges and sustainable agricultural production in Nigeria: The role of agricultural transformation agenda’, Osho said it had become imperative for states and the Federal Government to protect the environment, especially “from water and soil pollution, loss of biodiversity through deforestation, soil degradation, mono cropping and over-cropping.”
