By Simbo Olayinka
Nigeria – Contec Global Agro Limited in collaboration with Ogun State Ministry of Agriculture and Ogun State Economic Transformation Project (OGSTEP) has organized a 2-day capacity building for field facilitators and extension agents on the use of various organic fertilizers in readiness for the year’s planting season.
Speaking at the training program, held at the OGSTEP Project Office, OPIC Towers, Oke-Ilewo, Abeokuta, the Commissioner for Agriculture and Food Security, Hon. Bolu Owotomo, said that about two thousand farmers across the state were empowered with the agricultural inputs and herbicides to boost their farming methods, noting that the Government would not rest on its oars in ensuring food security across the state.
“Indeed, food security is our top priority in the state, as the administration led by Dapo Abiodun has ordered the massive empowerment of farmers across the state, including women farmers, so the state had distributed both crop inputs like planting materials, agrochemicals and fertilizers as well as aquaculture and poultry feed to the farmers, to boost their productivity and make food available for people’s consumption”, Owotomo said.
He further said that over 500 women farmers were given ₦50,000 each to boost their food production, as well as providing them with agricultural equipment to promote mechanized farming to boost and increase their farming outputs.
The training, which was meant for the extension officers and project facilitators, witnessed fitment plans for Cassava, Maize, Rice, Tomatoes, Soybeans, Leaf vegetable and Okra among other horticultural and food crops.
