Kayode Akinmade: Food security: Abiodun deepens Ogun’s agricultural transformation drive

With enactment for 10,000 farmers, caller mechanisation equipment, integer exertion and investments successful agro-processing, Governor Dapo Abiodun is pursuing a multi-pronged strategy to boost nutrient production, trim post-harvest losses and amended farmers’ livelihoods.

As Nigeria grapples with nutrient affordability and rising cultivation accumulation costs, Ogun State, nether Governor Dapo Abiodun, is strengthening efforts to amended nutrient information done targeted enactment for farmers, mechanisation, integer innovation and investments crossed the cultivation worth chain.

The latest intervention, unveiled astatine the 2026 World Food Day solemnisation successful Abeokuta, provides a wide denotation of this approach. It targets 10,000 atom and cassava farmers with subsidised workplace inputs, alongside the organisation of 10 tractors, different cultivation instrumentality and 1,200 Android phones equipped with applications for upwind information, marketplace prices and champion cultivation practices.

The inaugural reflects an knowing that improving nutrient information requires much than expanding the measurement of crops planted. It besides demands affordable inputs, timely information, businesslike accumulation systems, amended storage, processing facilities and reliable entree to markets.

For farmers, the outgo of fertilisers, herbicides, improved planting materials and machinery tin find whether a farming play produces a nett oregon deepens existing fiscal difficulties. By intervening successful these areas, the Ogun State...