Nigeria, May 15 -- The need to boost the production and consumption of underutilized indigenous crops to help achieve food security in the Southeastern region of Nigeria formed the crux of the 11thFaculty of Agriculture, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka Lecture Series. The lecture appealed to the people of the Southeast to return to the crops that helped the people of old live long and healthy lives. Dr Ogechukwu Umeh, a lecturer in the Department of Crop Science and Horticulture, presented at the university auditorium. In the lecture with the theme "Improving Under-utilized crops in South-eastern Nigeria: A Panacea for food security," Umeh regretted that the indigenous crops with their nutritional, medicinal, and economic values have been...