No fewer than 70 participants, comprising entrepreneurs, members of cooperative societies, research and agricultural departments of academic institutions, financial service providers and regulatory agencies, have completed training with the Post-harvest Loss Alliance for Nutrition (PLAN) programme in Lagos.

Experts have said that due to about 50% post-harvest losses in Nigeria, all hands must be on deck to tame the trends with modern preservative and value addition technologies.These were disclosed when the Postharvest Loss Alliance for Nutrition (PLAN) project, an initiative of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition...

In his address, Senior Project Manager for PLAN, Dr. Augustine Okoruwa said it was possible for Nigeria to thrive on agriculture, because part of the main objectives “is to produce profit, apart from feeding the family.”