Desertification: NAGGW supports development of college orchard

The National Agency for the Great Green Wall (NAGGW) has donated 3, 000 fruit tree seedlings to Yusufu Bala Usman College of Legal and General Studies, Daura, Katsina State.
The gesture was part of the effort to encourage institutions of higher learning to join in the fight against land degradation and desertification in dry lands area of Nigeria.
The Director-General of the NAGGW, Goni Ahmed, speaking at presentation ceremony, said that the donation was meant to support the development of the college’s orchard.
He commended the college’s initiative, urging other institutions of higher learning to emulate its initiative.
Ahmed, represented by the head of land resource management, Abdullaziz Kolo, said that building effective synergy with all stakeholders was critical to the attainment of the GGW goals, a statement from the agency signed by the head, press and public relations unit, Larai Daze, stated.
While noting that the challenges ahead in dry lands were tremendous, he said that GGW programme was an expression of commitment and a strategy adopted by African Leaders, supported by the international community, to fast track the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) to roll back poverty and address the specific risks and vulnerabilities in our dry lands.
He said that the GGW programme also served as a launching cushion for achieving zero net land degradation target agreed by world Leaders.
Daura Emirate, he said, benefited from the agency’s interventions, pointing out that it had also built kilometres of shelterbelt, hectares of orchards, boreholes in ten communities and a comprehensive skill acquisition centre in Sandamu Forest Reserve for the training of people in various vocations.