 A professor of plant pathology at the Federal University of Agriculture, Biokutafunab Ololadi Enikumeni has advocated for plant protection policy in the country. Enikumeni made this known while delivering the first inaugural lecture of the university. According to him, the policy would be part of measures to protect tropical crops against fungi-induced diseases and reduce cost of production by farmers in Nigeria. He expressed concerns over the information gap existing between researchers and the indigenous farmers and the various farming systems in the country. It will help us to design a framework for crop protection, framework in terms of addressing problems from the background of what are the challenges, what are the potentials that we have and what are the implications of a drive towards solving that problem. The larger implication is that you will have a framework for crop protection. For example, the use of pesticides. I have just talked about the value of natural products. There is no law, there is no policy that guides the development of natural pesticides as the mechanism for crop protection in Nigeria. So that crop protection policy will be the bedrock of our development of our crop protection systems in Nigeria. As I've already said in the lecture, ash extract, soil dust, inter crop management, there are options and they are as effective as synthetic chemicals. That's why if we have a framework that helps us to develop how we rely less on synthetic chemicals, why we develop these credible alternatives over a period of 20-50 years when we are sure we are not going to be importing synthetic chemicals. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.