According to the report, "by 2030, Africa will replace Asia as the region accounting for more than half the undernourished people in the world."
"So it is high time we should be thinking of quality, not just quantity alone. Quantity is good, but it should be combined with quality," he emphasized.
"The fertilizer needs for West Africa are different from East Africa. And so I would think that each sub-region and each country should make a bulk purchase using a high-level political forum," Adigbo explained.
"Africa must rise to go into mechanization. The age of hoe and cutlass is gone. For us to sustain, to be self-sufficient, we must go [for] mechanization. In fact, if we must also allow the promising technology like precision farming that require high sensitive equipment, we must go for the Belarus equipment because I gathered that it is integrated with computer," the professor concluded.