Great Green Wall signs MoU with Groasis B.V., Boplas Industry to establish waterboxx production in Nigeria
The National Agency for the Great Green Wall (NAGGW) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Groasis B.V in the Netherlands and Boplas Industries Limited Nigeria to commence production of waterboxx in Nigeria.
The Director-General of NAGGW, Dr. Yusuf Maina Bukar led the team of delegation to the Netherlands on Friday, April 14, 2023.
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In a statement issued by Mrs Sule Pauline, Head, Information and Corporate Communications Unit (ICCU), NAGGW, and sent to Neptune Prime, said the MoU became necessary for the agency to achieve its GGW programmes – the Tree Planting campaign.
The NAGGW has expressed its interest by keying into the advanced technology on irrigation method for implementation in its GGW programmes.
“Talks between the Agency and Groasis CEO, Mr Wout Hoff started since May 2022 and has culminated into an MoU that will see Nigeria based Boplas Industries Limited become the official licensed producer of the waterbox in Nigeria,” she stated.
“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 with the adoption of the waterboxx innovation it “shows the Agency’s seriousness in reforming the process of planting through new innovations, technologies and strategies that will ensure sustainability and competitiveness.”
This MoU according to Mrs Pauline will make Nigeria 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.
he Groasis waterboxx is an innovation adopted to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of Great Green Wall planting activities in the 11 front line 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.
The Groasis waterboxx technology as an advanced irrigation method will:
• Enhance the survival rate of seedlings and trees in Sahel and Sahara dryland areas by 90%.
• Accelerate and provide more sustainable agriculture in the NAGGW tree planting campaigns by reducing carbon footprints released in the environment.
• Bring about job creation as the production of the waterboxx will be done in one out of the 11 front line states of the Agency.
• Transfer of innovative solutions to other African countries.
• The potentials to expand the initiative to other Pan- African countries of the Great Green Wall (PAGGW).
