Ensuring Food Security In Benue — Leadership Newspaper

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Centre For Food and Technology ( CEFTER) at Benue state university has taken the bull by its horns to assist farmers improve on their yields and also halt the menace of post harvest losses and its economic implications. HEMBADOON ORSAR reports.

The Centre For Food and Technology ( CEFTER) at Benue state university which is currently training Masters and Phd students in the area of post harvest losses, recently organised its 2018 CEFTER food exhibition week to enable students of the centre showcase their products produced from locally made crops.

The leader of the centre, Professor Daniel Adezwa  explained that the objective of the centre is to conduct research and identify technologies in the same area of post harvest losses that would be useful in controlling loss, storage processing and preservation.

According to him, so far over 442 students have enrolled for the programme out of which 23 are regional students, saying  the project’s demand is to cover the whole of West  and…



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