Adamawa Deputy Governor, Professor Kaletapwa Farauta has urged renewed vigor in the area of technology to improve agricultural value chain between Nigeria and Cameroon.
Speaking in her office when she received the Vice Chancellor University of Maroua, Professor Idrissu Alioum, and his counterpart from the Modibbo Adama University, Professor Ibrahim Umar, the Deputy Governor observed that the two institutions can come up with new operational technologies to help local farmers improve food production, processing and storage in the two nations.
Farauta advocated concerted linkages to tackle shrinking lake Chad and other water bodies due to climate change.
“It is important to have linkages between the two countries through the two institutions to address our constrains,” said the Deputy Governor who doubles as the chairperson, state boundary committee.
She reiterated government’s commitment in addressing border issues between the two countries amicably.
Earlier, the VC University of Maroua Idrissu Alioum said the visit is to strengthen Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the area of students mobility, academic staff, workshops, conferences and non-academic staff of the two institutions.
Alioum added the two universities cross fertilize ideas on research, development and experiences with American University of Nigeria (AUN) and Federal College of Education (FCE) Yola.
In his own remark, the Vice Chancellor Modibbo Adama University Yola professor Ibrahim Umar who led the visiting team, informed the Deputy Governor that the institutions have collaborative engagements.
He said the two countries share common border and similar cultural characteristics, engage in trade and other cooperative endeavours that cut across security, impacts of climate crisis that affects the lake chad basin, hence the collaboration engagements with the university of Maroua and the other two aforementioned universities from Cameroon, seeking to develop cooperation in areas of teaching and research to address their common challenges.
According to him, the outcomes of the joint research to be conducted on issues of common interests will be beneficial to Adamawa state for policy planning and interventions in addressing issues of migration, border security governance, trade, environmental resource management, and climate crisis management.
