If you visit many offices across Nigeria at lunch time during the months
of May, June, July and August, chances are high that you will find a
good number of workers munching away at “mouth organs”. Yes, with corn
in season, one of the most popular delicacies at this time is the
combination of roasted corn (popularly code-named as “mouth organ”) and
the African pear. Outside of those months when both corn and pear are in season, this delicious combination is unavailable. Interestingly, during those
harvest months, enough corn and pear to sustain the country for a
substantial period, perhaps even an entire year, may have been
harvested. But with inadequate knowledge and utilization of modern and
cost-effective storage and preservation methods, tonnes of maize and
pear end up wasted every year. The same applies to many other agricultural commodities in Nigeria. At harvest periods, there is often a surplus, but in the absence of proper storage, a huge proportion of these harvests eventually goes to waste. These perennial losses pose a huge threat to the economic wellbeing of farmers, majority of whom operate at the subsistence level.
Nigeria is one of the most populous country in the world with more than
200 miilion people. To maintain the health and wellbeing of this growing
population they are some things that are essential like Food. Unfortunately this is not the case in Nigeria. They are various challenges along the food value chain of production, distribution, processing and storage. Netune atlantic focuses on poor Food Storage. An alarming 40% of the food Nigeria produces every year is lostbefore it even reaches consumers. That’s equal to 31% of its total landuse, according to the World Bank.