5.07.2020

Ogun state government provides supportive funds to train cassava farmers


Ogun State government has provided a supportive funding as promised, to educate extension agents in three locations, in adherance to COVID-19 guidelines on gathering, hygiene and health standards.

About 3,500 cassava farmers have received funds from the Ogun state government for the tilling and planting of improved cassava varieties production.

Governor, Dapo Abiodun reveal this during the flag-off of the 2020 Planting Season and Distribution of inputs to the first batch of cassava value chain beneficiaries under the Anchor Borrowers Programme.

He said, aside from air and water, food remains a major thing required for survival under the lockdown and as the global economy is graduallydrawing towards the negative side, demand for food may be high in the coming months.

 

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