Ogun State Government has renewed its commitment to ensuring food security in the state as well as providing raw materials for industrial growth and expansion of infrastructural facilities for socio-economic development.
The Commissioner for Agriculture, Dr Adeola Odedina gave the indication during the 2022 Budget Defence at the Ogun State House of Assembly’ Complex, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta.
Dr Odedina told the lawmakers that the ministry had set machineries in motion to consolidate on its achievements in the promotion of selected key value chains such as Rice, Cassava, Poultry and Fish.
The Agriculture commissioner, who said the sum of 3.78 billion naira was being proposed as budget estimate for the next fiscal year, said the ministry was anticipating support to farms and firms from World Bank Intervention in 2022.
In same vein, the Commissioner for Forestry, Mr Tunji Akinosi said a total budget estimate of 1.395 billion naira was expected to be expended in the next fiscal year.
Other agencies that defended their budget estimates are the State Forestry Plantation Project, Agro Service Corporation, the State Agricultural Development Corporation, the State Agricultural Development Programme, the State Cassava Revolution Programme, the State Value Chain Development Programme and the State Economic Transformation Project.
Oluwatoyin Adegoke
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