Governor Ayo Fayose
has approved the donation of 100,000 hectares of land to investors, who
are willing to embark on farming to improve agricultural production in
Ekiti.
The state Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Kehinde Odebunmi, stated this on Wednesday while addressing participants at the ongoing 2016 Agric. Summit, holding in Ado Ekiti.
The commissioner said the government was
ready to offer incentives to individuals and corporate bodies willing
to invest in farming and other farm-based commercial activities in any
part of the state.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that
the governor had allocated another 10,000 hectares of land to members of
the state chapter of Cassava Growers Association of Nigeria for ethanol production.
Odebunmi explained that the incentives
were to create agribusiness and investment-friendly environment, capable
of revolutionising agriculture as a big-time revenue earner in the
state.
He enjoined the people of the state to
embrace farming by cultivating lands in their neighbourhoods or
farmsteads to plant stable food crops.
The commissioner said such efforts were
capable of becoming something tangible in the long run, as the state
strives to overcome its current economic problems.
“Agriculture remains the only sure way to get the country out of its economic woes,” he said.
The commissioner explained that the
summit was in line with the efforts of the state government to
reposition the state’s economy.
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