Adamawa seeks improved collaboration in agric between Nigeria, Cameroon

Adamawa Deputy Governor, Kaletapwa Farauta has called for renewed vigor in the area of technology to improve agricultural value chain between Nigeria and Cameroon.

She stated this during a visit in her office by Idrissu Alioum, a professor and Vice Chancellor University of Maroua, and his counterpart from the Modibbo Adama University, Ibrahim Umar, a professor.

Farauta remarked that the two institutions can come up with new operational
technologies to help local farmers improve food production, processing and storage in the two nations.

Farauta advocated for concerted linkages to tackle shrinking Lake Chad and other water bodies due to climate changes which the two countries benefit from.

“It is important to have linkages between the two countries through the two institutions as brothers to address our constrains.

“At our own level as institution, we have taken queue into government efforts,” she said.

The Deputy Governor, who doubles as the chairperson state boundary committee, urged that the exchange programme between the two universities should benefit citizens of Adamawa as they constitute majority at MAU.

She reiterated government’s commitments in addressing border issues between the two countries amicably.

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Earlier, the VC University of Maroua said the visit was to strengthen Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the area of students’ mobility, academic staff, workshops, conferences and non-academic staff of the two institutions.

Alioum urged the two universities to cross-fertilize ideas on research, development and experiences with American University of Nigeria (AUN) and Federal College of Education (FCE) Yola.

In his remarks, Ibrahim Umar, Vice Chancellor Modibbo Adama University, Yola, who led the visiting team informed the Deputy Governor that the institutions had collaborative engagements, including that of Garoua and Gaoundere.

He also said that the two countries share common borders and similar cultural characteristics, and engage in trade and other cooperative endeavours that cut across security and climate crisis that affect the Lake Chad basin.

According to him, the outcomes of the joint research to be conducted on issues of common interests will be beneficial to Adamawa State for policy planning and pragmatic interventions in addressing issues of migration, border security, governance, trade, environmental resource management, climate crisis management, among other socio-economic challenges.