Millions of trees to spring up in Nigeria as the National Agency for the Great Green Wall, NAGGW has signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Netherlands with GROASIS B.V and Boplas Industries Limited Nigeria on for production of the Waterboxx in Nigeria.
BizPoint reports that The Groasis Waterboxx is an innovation adopted to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of Great Green Wall planting activities in the 11 frontline field operational areas of the Agency.
The Waterboxx is an ecological water-saving technology that has proved its effectiveness in enhancing tree survival, increasing growth speed, and reducing the amount of water being used to plant millions of trees in 55 countries around the world.
In a statement, sent to BizPoint on Monday, Mrs Pauline Sule, Head, Information and Corporate Communications Unit, ICCU of the NAGGW, said the MoU signing was led by the Director General of the agency, Dr Yusuf Maina-Bukar on Friday, April 14.
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Mrs Sule said the NAGGW had expressed its interest by keying into the advanced technology on irrigation method for implementation in its Great Green Wall programmes.
According her, talks between the agency and Groasis CEO, Mr Wout Hoff started since May 2022, which eventually culminated into an MOU that “will see Nigeria based Boplas Industries Limited become the official licensed producer of the Waterboxx in Nigeria.
“This will be a tripartite agreement between NAGGW, Groasis B.V and Boplas Industries Limited that will accelerate Nigeria’s Tree Planting campaign in the GGW belt, boost economic activities, create thousands of new jobs and ultimately reposition the Agency to achieve its mandate of transforming the Great Great Wall belt into an economic hub,” she said in the statement.
Mrs Sule explained that the Groasis Waterboxx technology as an advanced irrigation method would enhance the survival rate of seedlings and trees in Sahel and Sahara dryland areas by 90%.
She added that the technology would also accelerate and provide more sustainable agriculture in the NAGGW tree planting campaigns by reducing carbon footprints released in the environment.
“It will bring about job creation as the production of the Waterboxx will be done in one out of the 11 frontline states of the gency.
” It will help in transfer of innovative solutions to other African countries and unlock the potentials to expand the initiative to other Pan-African countries of the Great Green Wall (PAGGW).
“Adoption of the Waterboxx innovation by the NAGGW management, led by the Director General Dr. Yusuf Maina Bukar shows the agency’s seriousness in reforming the process of planting through new innovations, technologies and strategies that will ensure sustainability and competitiveness,” she explained.
BizPoint reports that Nigeria is the first Pan-African Agency for the Great Green Wall member country to adopt the innovation as policy as the country continues to lead the Pan-African Agency for the Great Green Wall and its agenda in Africa.
