Ogun assures of mechanised farming

The Ogun State government has restated its commitment to mechanised agriculture to ensure food security in the state, as the state government is working round the clock to make farm produce available at the markets.

The state’s Commissioner for Agriculture and Food Security, Hon. Bolu Owotomo, said this during a 2-day training organised by the Contec Global Agro LTD, in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture and Ogun State Economic Transformation Project (OGSTEP), with the theme: ‘Training For 2024 Planting Season and Distribution of Inputs and Seminar to the Farmers.’

The training which was meant for the farmers’ extension officers, was held at the OPIC Plaza, Office, Oke-Ilewo, Abeokuta.

At the programme, Owotomo said that the training was another parameter and milestone in ensuring farmers’ improvement in agriculture output and their livelihood, saying that it would enhance their productivity and agricultural value chain.

He 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 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, herbicides and birds 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 products, as well as providing them agricultural equipment, in terms of mechanized farming to boost and increase their farming outputs.