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Jun 7, 2020 • 12 tweets • 22 min read
@YaliAbuja@AtomicBettyBA #WorldFoodSafetyDay
There is no food without a seed @SeedCouncil has the responsibility of ensuring farmers get not only the right seeds, but safe seeds for cultivation especially in this era of food insecurity when seeds companies are desperate #FoodSafety@YaliAbuja@AtomicBettyBA@SeedCouncil#WorldFoodSafetyDay
According to the @FAO Director-General, José Graziano da Silva, "whether you are a farmer, farm supplier, food processor, transporter, marketer or consumer, food safety is your business. "There is no food security without food safety." #FoodSafety
Jun 7, 2020 • 9 tweets • 11 min read
@YaliAbuja The National Orientation Agency, the Ministry of Agriculture, the donors, private sector actors - seed companies, manufacturers/fabricators of food processing equipment as well as the CONSUMERS must be involved in the process of ensuring #FoodSafety#WorldFoodSafetyDay@YaliAbuja There is urgent need for advocacy in rural area they const.abt 60% our population @SeedCouncil must ensure they protect smallholder farmers, ensure they adopt Good Agronomy Practice (GAP) for this is the foundation of #FoodSafety#WorldFoodSafetyDay#FoodSafetyEveryonesBusiness
