Iar to the Nigerians: embraces telela corn, hunger

The Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR) AHMADU BEAUTIFUL University Zaria, in the state of Kaduna, invited the Nigerians of all believes to embrace the telela corn as a deliberate half to face hunger, food safety and strengthen their domestic and national economy.

Canva Maize is a genetically modified variety of corn (GM) developed to deal with challenges such as drought and insect infestations, in particular the owner of the army (Fam) and the gigantic in sub-Saharan Africa.

The project aims to improve returns, increase the income of farmers and save changes by reducing the need for insecticides.

Iar Zaria has a national mandate for the genetic improvement of corn, cowpea, sorghum, cotton, sunflower, jatropha, ricino, oat and groundnut. He also does research on the agronomy and health of plants, irrigation engineering, including the production of irrigated crops; mechanization and post-racolted investigation.

By making a passionate invitation to the inevitable need to embrace the genetically modified bodies (GMO), in particular the canvas corn during a courtesy request to the newspapers of the limited project in its company headquarters in Abuja, Tuesday, leader of Team Iar, Professor Lucius Bamaiyi, described the variety as sure, healthy and economic to meet the food and families and families and families and families and families and families and families and families families and families and families and families.

He said: “GMO is for the genetically modified organism, referring to plants, animals or microbes whose DNA has been altered, using genetic engineering techniques. This modification is performed to introduce specific strokes, as an increase in yield, resistance to parasites or herbicides tolerance.

“The time has come that the Nigerians embrace GMOs, in particular the Tele corn. The name” canvas “derives from the Latin word” protection, “which means” protection “. It is resistant to the army worm, climate change among others.

“Therefore it is not harmful as unknown by a certain number of Nigerians. It is not even carcinogenic as erroneously held by some people – unfortunately – including the elite and those informed in our company.”

Prof. Bamaiyi has set up that “Iar will never be involved in everything that would jeopardize the life of the Nigerian loving”, observing that the involvement of the media of the institute was to convince people to free their doubts about the GMOs and their benefits for the nation.

Contributing, Prof. Rabiu Adamu, the main investigator of the corn project, said that corn hybrids are “currently the only option for farmers to control recalcitrant parasites through chemical spray as it will significantly improve their revenues. Eliminate the twin challenges of parasites and drought will save a lot of foreign exchanges used for the purchase of chemicals.

According to him, “while the average yield in Nigeria is 4-5 tons per hectare, in Kenya, the Zimbabwe enjoys 6-7 tons per hectare, making the variety of corn the inevitable option for the nation”.

Previously in an address by Welcome, the managing director/CEO of Blueprint Newspapers Limited, Malam Salisu Umar, has blamed the opposition to the teas of Tele and the varieties of GMO crops associated with ignorance.

By assigning the Nigerians on the research, Malam Umar praised the IAR team for having scrupulously educated citizens through their presentations and has promised to use the titles of the project, including its vernacular edition, ManhajaTo educate and sensitize people on the need to embrace GMOs.

“We must support this collaboration in order to create awareness on this issue; to specifically deal with doubts about Telela corn from the Islamic point of view in order to resolve food safety challenges,” he said.

The editorial director of Blueprint, Clem Oluwole, daily publisher, Abdulrahman Abdulrauf and others, who praised the IAR delegation for synergy, asked for the support of the commitment of the media to defeat the forces against GMOs.

In particular, they noticed that, given the order of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu who interrupted the import of food products produced locally, the need to encourage the coherent awareness blitz to change the negative opinions of the people on the subject was necessary.

Other members of Team Iar were Prof. Shehu G. Ado, Prof. Muhyideen Oyeleke, prof. Maimuna M. Abdulmalik and Yakubu Dodo.