Lagos State is adjudged the smallest state in the country by landmass, lacking the large tracts of land available to other states for cultivation of crops and agriculture.
And though it accounts for 20 per cent of food production, the disruption in the food supply chain across the country, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the outbreak of zoonotic diseases, coupled with the aftermath of the #EndSARS protests, impacted heavily on the cost and availability of food items, leaving less disposable income in the pockets of average Lagosians.
The beneficiaries received tractors, ploughs, fishing boats and gear; harvesters, threshers, destoning machines, de-feathering machines, medication, herbicides, fish juveniles, pig growers, smoking kilns, eggs and other various implements and input, in farming communities across the agricultural zones of Badagry, Epe and Ikorodu.
“I am pleased to note that Lagos State Government has put in place a strategy for the proper utilisation and continuous maintenance of these assets, to ensure that we derive maximum value from them. We are also working with a financial institution, regarding appropriate financing structures for the guaranteed sustainability of the programme.”
Sanwo-Olu said the implementation of this year’s intervention is aimed at consolidating ongoing ambitious and determined efforts towards the development and expansion of the entire Lagos State agricultural sector. The Commissioner for Agriculture, Abisola Olusanya, who said 13,976 persons have benefitted since the programme started in 2014, explained that it was the government’s desire to help committed farmers nurture their businesses into viable and mature agricultural enterprises through a deliberate monitoring and control mechanism.
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