Professionals advocate backyard, greenhouse farming in Nigeria

Best Food Farm greenhouse PHOTO: FEMI IBIROGBA • It can only complement commercial farming, says don Revving up food production amid widespread insecurity in almost all parts of the country has underscored the need to improvise and maximise available spaces at home in villages, towns and cities for backyard farming. Caused by the Boko Haram terrorism, herder/farmer clashes, ethnic militia attacks, banditry and kidnapping, insecurity has displaced thousands of farming households, communities and neighbourhood cluster processing centres, depleting food availability and pushing inflation to the extreme. Apart from vegetables, agricultural scientists said various food crops, such as pulses, grains, roots and tubers, poultry and aquaculture could be done either at commercial or subsistence level. Improvised techniques are used for vegetables such as leafy vegetables, tomatoes and others such as yam and potatoes. These are cultivated on flat beds if the premises are ...