Nigerian Government to Revitalise Nigeria’s Textile Industry with Bt Cotton

The federal government has announced plans to revitalize Nigeria’s textile industry with the introduction of Bt Cotton, noting that the move would create massive employment, particularly for Nigerian farmers in the country. <br />The Director-General, National Agricultural Biotechnology Development Agency, Abdullahi Mustapha, stated that the federal government determined to solve the challenge, has introduced commercialized Bt cotton in Nigeria, maintaining that the initiative is already been accepted by farmers. <br />The Country Coordinator, Open Forum on Agricultural Biotechnology, Dr. Rose Gidado, says the workshop was designed to keep farmers and stakeholders abreast with new trends in the cotton industry. <br />Gidado also noted that there was a need to collect the experiences of farmers who already adopted the Bt cotton, so as to know how to help them achieve better results in the production of cotton.