Author: Adewale Kupoluyi

Malawi’s only known blind farmer making huge profits

Patrick Jonathan Chisale at his farm in Welemu Village in Malawi’s Southern District of Thyolo “Yes, I am blind, but when I’m working on the farm, I do not think of myself as such”, said Patrick Jonathan Chisale, a farmer from the Welemu Village in Malawi’s Southern District of Thyolo. The 52-year-old had been farming before 2000, when he became blind. And he never allowed his condition to stop him. “Before I became blind, I loved farming. This is why even after becoming blind, I wanted to continue doing what I loved, and I also wanted to make my family…

OBE launches initiative

By Olamide Tejuoso Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, has become one of recipients of the “OBE” initiative aimed at ensuring households produce their own food. The initiative called OBE, a Yoruba word that literarily translates as ‘soup’, and had been inaugurated in Ondo State in 2021, according to the initiator, is a project aimed at equipping every household with valuable information and resources on how to grow all foodstuff they need for soup, right in their compound. Speaking at the launch, Mrs. Tomi Olatoye listed the advantages of OBE initiative as ensuring food security for each household, food sustainability scheme…

Researchers develop spray-on food wrapper

To preserve the shelf-life of food, reduce food and plastic waste, and increase food safety, top public university and Harvard University, a private Ivy League research university, both in the United States of America have developed a biodegradable spray-on food wrapper.