Lower Niger Basin authority employs high
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THE Managing Director of the Lower Niger River Basin Development Authority, Ilorin, Kwara State, Dr Adeniyi Saheed Aremu, has disclosed to The Guardian that the management has purchased a drone as part of the efforts to employ sophisticated technologies in the business of food production and allied services.
The drone was being test-run when
The Guardian was at the authority’s premises in Ilorin.
The drone, which is an unmanned aerial device, is one of the latest technological products used in land surveying/mapping, security, engineering, cinematography and agricultural applications.
Dr. Aremu disclosed that the device would help the basin authority in farmland mapping, survey for project designs and constructions, engineering infrastructure monitoring and evaluation, project construction progress reporting and consultancy services.
Farm crop protection would also be boosted with the device, especially in terms of early pest detection and control.
Part of the efforts being emplaced, Aremu added, includes construction and utilisation of over 100 fish ponds leased to fish farmers and turning out no fewer than 150 metric tonnes of fish annually at Kampe Omi Dam in the Ejiba area office of the authority.
The authority also revealed that its Graduate Youth Empowerment Scheme was put together to reduce the army of unemployed people in Kwara and Kogi states and to contribute to the efforts to make Nigeria foodsecure.
He listed the area offices of the authority with functional irrigation to include Ejiba, Shonga, Ilorin and Lokoja.