Leadership (Abuja)
20 November 2008
The House of Representatives has pledged its readiness to partner with the Agricultural Development Company (International) Ltd, Israel and the Federal Ministry of Environment under the Desert-To-Food Programme to eradicate the menace of desertification.
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Your nation is also involved in fighting desertification at its cause: the Typha infestations in Lake Chad and your rivers, with recent successes in Jigawa. Typha is a dessication machine. Each river or lake cleaned is a blow against the desert. To continue the never-ending struggle against the weed requires a profit- which is available in food and fuel. Typha is a top-rank ethanol crop, and when grown in clean water, a very productive food plant. Fight the dryness in your wetlands.