To prevent post-harvest losses, the Nigerian Energy Forum (NEF) with funding from United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), has identified two fishing communities in Lagos where it will provide solar-powered cold room and dryer.
NEF Business Coordinator, Mr. Adebayo Adegoke, said the project was aimed at helping coastal communities improve their fishing.
Research, he said, has shown that there is high level of post-harvest waste, whereby fishermen go into the wild to get fish but by the time they get back there is this high level of waste.
The programme, he further stressed, is aimed at helping them preserve their fish or catch to enable them maximise profit.
He said the NEF team had been to various communities but identified two that needed solution most. They are Langbasa and Sagbokoji.