By Iyabo Adebisi
Oyo State Government through the state’s Agribusiness Development Agency (OYSADA) and its Covid-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus, (N-CARES) project has again commenced distribution of farm assets and livestock for farmers and YEAP trainees across all the 33 local government areas in the state.
The State Government in its efforts to protect the livelihoods and food security of poor and vulnerable farmers disproportionately affected by the covid-19 pandemic set up the state N-CARES project with the aim to facilitate the recovery of local economic activity for the affected farmers in the state.
Speaking with journalists during the distribution of farm assets at Ibarapa North, Ayete, the state coordinator for Oyo State N-Care Result Area 2, Mr. Bamigbola Adewumi stated that the project was to boost food security in the state, through input and assets distributions for the real local farmers
He said 140 farmers which included local and small-scale farmers and the Youth Entrepreneurship In Agribusiness Project (YEAP) are benefiting from the gesture.
Mr. Bamigbola explained that the farm assets and others including cassava grater and presser machines worth millions was geared to meet the needs of the beneficiaries.
He also explained a group of ten youths farmers who are into maize farming sponsored to Nasarawa by the State Government for training would be given a maize thresher machine for processing to assist them in the ease of doing business while another set of Nasarawa trainees went home with sprayer and safety kits,
The beneficiaries of the project, Mr. Salako Kazeem Babatunde, a livestock farmer at Ibarapa North Local Government Area Ayete, Mr. Odeyemi Mayowa Odeniyi from Ibarapa Central, Mrs. Okegbenro Suliaht Odunayo from Ibarapa Central, Igboora all lauded Governor Seyi Makinde over the state N-CARES project.
They all promised to make good use of the items given to them to the benefit of themselves, their immediate communities and the state at large.
Mr. Olayiwola Lanre, the Facilitator of the state N-Care Project, Result Area 2, Ibarapa North Local Government, Ayete, said, the programme was solely is to militate the adverse effect of covid-19.
Mr Olayiwols lauded OYSADA for visiting all the local government areas in the state for identification purposes and this really make it easier for us to identify the real farmers.
Some other areas covered by the state N-CARES at the ongoing distributions of farm items are Oluyole LGA, Aba Ege, while assets distributed to the beneficiaries are 20 knapsack sprayers, 10 PPE, 2 cassava presser and grater machines, and Ibadan North East, the group that benefitted from the project are Agbesayedotun, and they went home with 800 poultry birds, 10 poultry cages, 60 female goats, 20 female goats, 20 male sheep’s; Lagelu LGA, the beneficiary group who is Agbegbemi, went home with 40 knapsack sprayers, 20 PPE, among others
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