The agriculture minister dropped some rough news about a third of Nigerian soil being completely trashed, and the government is scrambling to fix it before food production totally tanks. Aliyu Sabi said the degradation comes from climate issues and bad farming methods, and it could take a thousand years just to bring back a few centimeters of topsoil.
They launched the Nigeria Farmers' Soil Health Scheme back in October to help farmers stop dumping excessive fertilizer everywhere, and the plan involves setting up soil-testing labs in all 774 local government areas run by young farmers and women. Twelve labs with modern gear are already up across the six geopolitical zones.
Abubakar Musa Kundiri from the Nigerian Institute of Soil Science said cities are making everything worse through erosion, construction stress, and waste mismanagement. The whole push is trying to get people to stop treating dirt like garbage and start seeing it as something that actually keeps cities running.
They launched the Nigeria Farmers' Soil Health Scheme back in October to help farmers stop dumping excessive fertilizer everywhere, and the plan involves setting up soil-testing labs in all 774 local government areas run by young farmers and women. Twelve labs with modern gear are already up across the six geopolitical zones.
Abubakar Musa Kundiri from the Nigerian Institute of Soil Science said cities are making everything worse through erosion, construction stress, and waste mismanagement. The whole push is trying to get people to stop treating dirt like garbage and start seeing it as something that actually keeps cities running.
