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By Lanre Omotosho
As the world celebrates pulses day, farmers have been enjoined to plant pulses so as to regain the lost nutrients back to their soil.
Proprietor, Atom College of Fisheries and Agriculture Technology, Irra, Oyun Local Government of Kwara State, Comrade Olawale Ajibola gave the advice in an exclusive interview with correspondent Lanre Omotoso.
Comrade Ajibola said because of limited land for farming and climate change, farmers need to plant pulses to gain soil nutrients such as urea, nitrogen and minerals.
The immediate past chairman of Kwara State, All Farmers Association of Nigeria, stressed that aside from planting pulses to regain soil nutrients, pulses when harvested would serve as food to eradicate hunger and poverty.
Examples of pulses include kidney beans, lima beans, butter beans, broad beans, chick peas, cowpeas, black-eyed peas and pigeon peas.
With collaboration of Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations since 2016 designated February Ten of every year as World Pulses Day.
Theme for this year World Pulses Day is “Nutritious Seeds for a Sustainable Future.” to create awareness about benefits, value, and worth of pulses as highly nutritious elements of human diet.
