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Nigerians to enjoy fortified cassava by 2014 – IITA

On December 8, 2011 · In News Ibadan – By the middle of  2014, more than 150,000 households in Nigeria are expected to be eating vitamin A fortified yellow cassava, an international agricultural organisation, HarvestPlus, said HarvestPlus  is an international partner of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)  leading  a global effort to breed and disseminate micro-nutrient-rich staple food crops to reduce hunger in malnourished populations. In a release in Ibadan on Thursday,  IITA quoted HarvestPlus as saying that  yellow cassava varieties could provide more vitamin A in the diets of more than 70 million Nigerians, who ate cassava everyday. The release, signed by Godwin Atser, the spokesman for IITA,  stated that yellow cassava varieties were  already being multiplied through stem cuttings. It said that  by 2013 when sufficient certified stems would be  available for HarvestPlus and its partners to distribute to about 25,000 farming households initially. The release said farmers would be able to grow the new vitamin A varieties and feed their families on them and in addition, multiply and share cuttings with others in the community,  thus amplifying the nutritional benefits. Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is widely prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa,  afflicting almost 20 per cent of pregnant women and about 30 per cent of children under the age of five in Nigeria, the release stated. It added that VAD could  lower immunity and impair vision, leading to blindness and even death. The release stated that  children and women would be the main beneficiaries of these new yellow varieties, which could provide up to 25 per cent of  daily vitamin A needs. It said that varieties with enough vitamin A to provide up to half of daily needs were already in the breeding pipeline and should be ready for release in a few years… continued

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Ghana Discovers Iron Ore

Nana Bi-Kusi Appiah, Manso Nkwanta Traditional Area in the Ashanti Region (left) cutting the sod to commission the Emmaland Resource Center. Ghana has discovered large deposit of iron ore at Sheini Hills in the Zabzugu Tatale District of the Northern region. The Sheini Hills iron ore project is anticipated to contribute significantly to the growth of the Ghana’s economy. Speaking at the commissioning of Emmaland and Cardero Ghana Limited building, Emmanuel Ababio, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company, said the mining of iron ore marked the beginning of a new era for Ghana’s economic development. Emmaland and Cardero Ghana Limited has been issued with license to develop the Sheini iron ore deposit in the Zabzugu Tatale District in the Northern region. He said the company has the capacity to employ thousands of people, provide basic infrastructure, improve upon the living condition of the people in the catchment area and transform the country. Mr. Ababio said as part of the company’s social responsibility even before the project fully takes off, it has graded the road to link Zabzugu to the Sheini and rehabilitated the abandoned presidential lodge at Zabzugu which they will use as their office. They have also equipped the district assemblies with computers to facilitate their work. continued

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