To reduce fire disaster on farmlands across the country, farmers have been enjoined to adopt fire-tracing method.
Retired Director, Farm Settlement and Peasant Farmers Development Program, Ekiti State Ministry of Agriculture, Elder Oluropo Olayemi gave the advice in an exclusive interview with Radio Nigeria in Ado-Ekiti.
Elder Olayemi identified fire-tracing as a means of clearing two to five meters in-between ones farm and another at the onset of dry season.
The agriculturist noted that fire-tracing around the farmlands and properly weeded farms would help to prevent fire to jump to the farm.
On the early rainfall being experienced in some parts of the country, Elder Olayemi described it as good omen that would help in food production.
He stressed that the early rainfall would help the burnt farm to overcome stress, assist the crops planted in the previous year to grow faster as well as a means to commence preparation for planting.
Elder Olayemi however added that the early rainfall would not affect irrigation farming, as its intensity would not be felt much in the month of February and March.
LANRE OMOTOSO
