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 2024 planting season.
The State Commissioner for Agriculture and Food Security, Hon. Bolu Owotomo, during the training programme held at the OGSTEP Project Office, OPIC Towers, Oke-Ilewo, Abeokuta, said that about two thousand farmers across the state were empowered with the agricultural inputs and herbicides to boost their farming methods
He noted 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 N50,000 each to boost their food production, in addition to provision of 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.
Mrs. Jokotoye, PM, Cassava Revolution Program, OGSTEP Project Coordinator,Mosun Owo-odusi,Hon Commissioner for Agriculture and Food Security, Hon. Bolu Owootomo, Project Manager Agric Mrs Oluseyi Olufbire and
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