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Post by Trade Coach on Jun 17, 2018 12:55:46 GMT 1
AFRICAN BREADFRUIT TREES: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH CAN SAVE THEM - EXPERT
The near absence of breadfruit trees in Nigeria has caught the attention of a Food Science and Technology expert, who has called for a collaborative effort from stakeholders and the academia in conjuring effective approach to save the tree from eventual extinction.
A professor at the Micheal Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike (MOUAU), Abia State, Dr. Titus Nwabueze made this call while delivering the institution’s 31st inaugural lecture titled: ‘Bread On The Tree: Process Optimisation In Food Extrusion Technology.’
Nwabueze said the collaboration between experts in the sector will save African breadfruit from extinction and promote varietal seed sales.
“It may interest us to note that the volatile constituents of raw African breadfruit seed oil possess components with prospects of use in manufacturing drugs with nutritional background, otherwise known as nutraceuticals.
“This will not only play the role of drugs in alleviating symptoms and illness, but also provide the body with nutritional benefits,” he added.
He, however, tasked Nigeria to toe the path of Malaysia, a country that exploited the potentials of Oil Palm tree previously left unnoticed in Nigeria, in the 1960s and is today earning a lot from the produce.
Nwabueze stressed that, if Malaysia could do this, then the breadfruit tree is ‘not too tall a tree’ that Nigeria cannot fully harness to boost the country’s economy.
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