Food Security: Abiodun unveils support package for 10,000 Ogun farmers

Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has unveiled a broad enactment bundle for 10,000 atom and cassava farmers, including subsidised fertilisers, herbicides and improved planting materials, alongside the organisation of 10 tractors, different cultivation instrumentality and 1,200 Android phones to boost nutrient accumulation and fortify nutrient security.

Abiodun announced the interventions on Friday at the 2026 World Food Day solemnisation held astatine the June 12 Cultural Centre, Abeokuta, with the theme, “Innovate Today, Nourish Tomorrow.”

Under the initiative, 2,000 atom farmers volition person 2 bags of fertiliser and 1 container of urea each, portion 8,000 cassava farmers volition person the aforesaid quantities of fertiliser and urea, alongside 25 bundles of cassava stems each. The authorities volition besides supply 3 litres of herbicides to each beneficiary atom husbandman and 10 litres to each cassava farmer.

The 1,200 Android phones, equipped with applications providing upwind information, marketplace prices and guidance connected champion cultivation practices, are designed to springiness farmers entree to timely information, amended accumulation decisions and fortify their links to cultivation markets.

The 10 tractors and different instrumentality are being provided to enactment workplace settlements and farmers’ associations crossed the state, reinfor...