No less than 2,743 farmers in Lagos State would next week Tuesday get inputs and gainful resources under the State Government 2020 Agricultural Value Chains Empowerment Program.
The State Acting Commissioner for Agriculture, Ms. Abisola Olusanya, who unveiled this today in Lagos, clarified that farmers, agro-processors, fisherman, butchers and marketer would all profit by the strengthening program as beneficial resources peculiar to all the agricultural value chains would be made available to them at no cost.
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As indicated by her, the Agricultural Value Chains Empowerment Program has been planned as a methods for diverting the required help to little holder farmers who are effectively occupied with the different Agricultural Value Chains, in this way creating further wealth and job opportunities in farming communities.
Olusanya clarified that the point of the strengthening program was to give the vital sources of info and resources required by farmers to improve food creation in the State in an exertion focused toward expanding the State’s independence to 40% of food needs by 2023.
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“The overall aim of the Agricultural Value Chains Empowerment Programme is to provide the necessary agricultural inputs and productive assets to farmers as a means of achieving improved food production and supply as well as delivering optimum economic benefits to farmers and other operators”, she averred.
