By Iyabo Adebisi
Two hundred and five farmers in Olorunsogo, Oorelope and Saki East local government areas have received their agricultural inputs from the Oyo State Government through the OYS-Cares.
The beneficiaries specialize in maize, tomatoes and cassava farming.
The inputs roll-out to the farmers were in continuation of efforts to boost food security in the state.
Speaking with journalists shortly after the distribution of the agricultural inputs to the beneficiaries in Igbeti, the state coordinator for Nigeria Covid-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus,(N-Cares) Result Area 2, Mr. Kolawole Bamigbola said fifty (50) tomatoes farmers received twenty sachets of tomatoes seeds, one and half bags of fertilizers, one litre of pre-emergence and one litre of post-emergence herbicides.
Mr. Kolawole also noted that fifty (50) maize farmers of five groups also received agricultural inputs to enhance their farm produces. He said, “Each farmer collected 10kg of maize, 2 bags of NPK fertilizer, one liter of pre-emergence herbicide and one post-emergence herbicide.”
In a remark, the Chairperson, Olorunsogo Local Government, Mrs Akani Juliana Oluwakemi, Chairman, Oorelope Local Government, Raimi Akeem Adepoju, lauded Governor Seyi Makinde over the support in all the 33 local government areas across the state through OYS-Cares.
They urged the beneficiaries to make good use of all the inputs given to them in order to ensure food security in our local government and in the state at large.
Similarly, 260 farmers also received agricultural inputs in Iseyin, Kajola and Iwajowa local government areas of the state.
The inputs ranged from cassava cuttings, rice seeds, tomatoes seeds, maize seeds, herbicides, fertilizers among others.
The farm input distribution was done in conjunction with the World Bank under the state Agribusiness Development Agency, OYSADA.
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