As part of efforts to reposition agriculture, ensure food security and empower young farmers, the Osun State Government has commenced distribution of chicks to livestock farmers in the State.
No fewer than 100 farmers benefitted from the first phase of the distribution exercise as each of the beneficiaries took home 2000 day-old chicks.
The State Government also commenced distribution of feed-mills, vaccines and drugs to farmers, an effort geared towards enhancing their production capacity.
The initiative is anchored under the Osun Broilers Outgrowers Production Scheme (OBOPS-III), aimed to eliminate poverty and enhance production capacity of the livestock farmers in the State.
While flagging off the distribution exercise at Ara Junction, Ede, the State Commissioner for Agriculture and Food Security, Mr Dayo Adewole said the initiative was designed to support farmers particularly the youth and women who could not afford to secure the chicks.
Mr Adewole who was represented by the Director of Livestock Services, Osun Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, Mr. Amos Daramola, said adequate vaccines, drugs and feed-mills that would be enough to last between five and six weeks had been put in place for distribution to beneficiary farmers.
The Commissioner who described the initiative as a veritable tool to eliminate poverty, and unemployment in the State, said the scheme would go a long way to further attract and encourage the young ones to agriculture particularly livestock production.
In their separate remarks, some of the beneficiaries who expressed satisfaction and delight at the kind gesture extended to them by the government, promised to justify the purpose to which the programme was implemented
Mr. Nurudeen Ibrahim and Mrs. Oguntuwase Adenike registered their gratitude to the government for prioritising agriculture and welfare of farmers in the State.
Adenitan Akinola
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