Mustafa Baba Shekhuri, Gurukota rezvekurima nekusimudzirwa kwemaruwa kuNigeria, vakati nyika ichave imwe yenyika nhatu dzepamusoro dzinogadzira mbatatisi panosvika 2025.
Nigeria yave kutungamira mukugadzirwa kweyam uye mufarinya muAfrica uye iri pachinzvimbo chechinomwe mukugadzirwa kwembatatisi.
Bazi iri rakaona matambudziko akatarisana nevarimi munyika pakurima mbatatisi: mbeu dzisina kunaka, hutachiwana hwakanyanya, hurongwa hwekuchengetera zvinhu zvechinyakare uye kusashandisa michina yakakwana. Matambudziko anofanirwa kugadziriswa zvese padanho remubatanidzwa uye pamwero wematunhu ega.
Kugadzirisa matambudziko emhando yembeu, zvakarongwa kutanga nzvimbo yekurima yakavakirwa paNational Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI) muJos. Yakarongwa kugadzira nzira yekudiridza munzvimbo ine mahekita makumi maviri ekugadzirwa kwembeu, pamwe nekuvakwa kwechitoro chinotonhora.
Shekhuri akacherekedza kuedza kwematunhu ekugadzira mbatatisi akadai seAdamawa, Kano, Kaduna, Cross River nevamwe.
Izvo zvinofanirwa kucherechedzwa kuti muhuwandu hwevagadziri vembatatisi dzepasirese, Nigeria ichiri pachinzvimbo chemakumi matatu neshanu, iine huwandu hwematani miriyoni 35.