World Food Day: We’re Making Significant Progress in Mechanised Farming – Adeleke
The Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke says his administration is commited to mechanised farming to boost food production in the State and nation at large.
The Governor stated this in Osogbo, the State Capital during the 2024 World Food Day celebration.
He said his administration has made significant investment in Agriculture which is a critical sector of the economy to boost food production for affordable prices beneficial to the entire population.
Governor Adeleke who explained that he had earlier set up a Food Security Implementation Committee to implement the report submitted by the Committee, decried slow pace of work within the implementation committee.
He urged the Commissioner for Agriculture to take urgent steps to ensure that the implementation committee delivers on its mandate, stressing that, the State is in an emergency which all should act to secure food supply and access for the citizens.
We have launched an agropreneur project which I promised earlier. Each local government is expected to provide at least 1000 hectares of land for a special incubation farming project for young agropreneurs. We have a productive partnership with the German Development Agency, GIZ to train and empower agropreneurs”.
While assuring farmers, of his commitment to mechanisation and innovations, as he attended a livestock conference in France, Governor Adeleke promised to implement the new practices about innovations in livestock farming, in partnership with French Government on International Development.
