The Federal Institute of Industrial Research Oshodi (FIIRO), Lagos, has said that it is focusing on increasing farmers and processors’ income by asking scientists to take scientific technology and results to the field to raise productivity. FIIRO’s Director-General, Dr. Gloria Elemo, said this while receiving members of the management team of West Africa Agricultural Productivity Programme (WAAPP-Nigeria) in the Institute in Lagos. Elemo said that there was the need to take scientific technologies to agriculture and industries to boost farm production and meet growing food demand. She added that FIIRO, in its 58 years of existence, has developed over 250 technologies and completely packaged 50 of them ready for immediate commercialisation. “The institute has trained over 75,000 techno-entrepreneurs directly on its various developed technologies and over 500,000 in collaboration with other organisations such as the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and National Directorate of Employment (NDE) among others,” Elemo said. She added: “The institute has recorded major breakthroughs in the development of process technologies/ products that led to national policy formulations by the Federal Government, especially in the banning of importation of some raw materials and products.”
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