FOOD WASTE IN NIGERIA

The process of storing food is an ancient one. But the decision to store now, is an important one. Technology has made the process of producing food easier, faster, more efficient and more in quantity. So every farming season, there's an abundance of food. This trend tends to make the consumers lazy to store or save food.

This abundance of food, might not be what is experienced in other part of the world that is been ravaged by war, drought, famine and hunger.

Each year, when there's an abundance of food, in as much as we enjoy the availability of these food, let us think about all the other people who do not have the luxury of having these foods.

In Nigeria, even though there's an abundance of food in the harvesting season, there's always a scarcity that is experienced in the farming season.

This is as a result of lack of storage facilities. Our one problem is storing the abundance of food that we produce each year. From grains to fruits to vegetables to tubers, there's a high waste that is experienced every year.

One way that this can be stopped is if we all decide that all our foods should be stored and preserved naturally. So that we don't miss out on all the nutrients that this foods have in them.

Perhaps, when we begin, we will not only feed ourselves all year round, but we will have enough to sell to other nations of the world. Nations who are in dire need of the foods that we have in abundance.