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The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) will be embarking on research activities to rid the country of soil acidity.<\/p>\n
The Director General, Prof. Paul Bosu says the move has become necessary as the situation threatens food security in the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m directing them to put more resources into research which can help the soil recover from the acidic nature, otherwise you\u2019ll plant the crops and we wouldn\u2019t meet our expectations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He was speaking at the 273rd<\/sup> directors management committee meeting and staff durbar at Kwadaso.<\/p>\n Soil acidity has been known to impede crop production as it further limits the availability of nutrients such as phosphorus to plants.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u201cIf these nutrients are adequate in the soil and the soil is acidic, still the plants cannot make use of the nutrients. So, it\u2019s important we address soil acidity. Across the country, our soils are very acidic,\u201d said Director of Soil Research Institute, Dr. Edward Yeboah.<\/p>\n Prof. Bosu hinted at the establishment of the CSIR endowment fund to support research activities.<\/p>\n He believes the fund which will be launched in 2023 will support the national research fund and help carry out indigenous research activities.<\/p>\n \u201cCSIR research is largely funded from external sources and that leaves us at the beck and call of their programmes.<\/p>\n \u201cWe want to create the fund that can support us at the period where we\u2019re not getting support from external sources,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) will be embarking on research activities to rid the country of soil acidity. The Director General, Prof. Paul Bosu says the move has become necessary as the situation threatens food security in the country. \u201cI\u2019m directing them to put more resources into research which can help the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1249904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[28837,4046,3042,250,12278,9082],"class_list":["post-1249902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-acidity","tag-csir","tag-focus","tag-ghanas","tag-soil","tag-tackling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1249902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1249902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}