NDLEA, FUNAAB move against illegal drugs with Artemisia farming

In a decisive determination to curb the cultivation of illicit substances, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has strengthened its Alternative Development (AD) inaugural done a strategical concern with the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB).

The bureau besides carried retired a tract appraisal of Artemisia annua cultivation successful Ibafo, Ogun State.

During a sojourn to the institution, the bureau said it was moving beyond enforcement toward applicable socio-economic solutions that code the basal causes of cause production.

The National Coordinator, Alternative Development Project successful Nigeria, CN Jonah Kolo, highlighted 4 captious pillars for the engagement, including transitioning farmers from illicit crops to ineligible agriculture, integrating youths into structured farming systems, scaling world probe into tract programs, and fortifying nutrient systems successful susceptible communities.

He reaffirmed the Agency’s committedness to partnerships that present applicable results, fortify livelihoods, and enactment nationalist improvement priorities.

Responding, the Vice-Chancellor of FUNAAB, Professor Babatunde Kehinde, welcomed the initiative, offering the university’s extended resources, including thousands of hectares of arable onshore to enactment the cause.

Kehinde noted that the promotion of morganatic f...