The Ondo State Government has again reaffirmed his commitment to continue to partner with the federal government and other relevant stakeholders in the agricultural sector with a view to continue to develop the sector by attracting more funding and providing more job opportunities to the teaming youth of the state.
The Senior Special Assistant to Mr Governor on Agriculture and Agricbusiness, Hon. Wemimo Akinsola made the commitment during strategic different meetings with relevant stakeholders on agriculture in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory.
While speaking at the meeting, the Senior Special Assistant noted that the partnership became necessary in order to attract more funding to develop agricultural value chain in the state.
Leading the State team on the familiarization visit to the newly established Ministry of Livestock to exchange ideas with the Senior Technical Advisor (STA) to the Minister, Dr. Richard Mark Mbaram, Hon. Akinsola solicited more support for Ondo State most especially in the area of establishing medium and large-sized farms for both small and large ruminants in the state.
In his response, Dr. Richard Mark Mbaram, who is the Senior Technical Adviser to the Minister of Agriculture, stated that the ministry has decided to adopt a region-wide approach for its intervention and advice Ondo State to show leadership in driving the ministry’s activities in the southwestern part of the country.
At the review meeting with the new management of the New Partnership for Africa’s Develop (NEPAD), Hon. Akinsola also sought for a review of status of Ondo State’s application for the counterpart-funded Grant for the development of agricultural activities in Ondo State.
The current management of NEPAD however, promised to review the status of Ondo State’s application to allow the state to benefit from the grant disbursement process.
The team also visited Project Coordinating Unit of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (FMAFS) and as well to the National Project Coordinator Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones (SAPZ) of the African Development Bank (AfDB) to explain the readiness of the state as part of the states already considered ready to benefit
Hon. Akinsola assured that Ondo State under the leadership of Hon. Lucky Ayedatiwa will continue to parley relevant stakeholders so that the state can benefit from all funds from the federal government and international donor to agriculture development in the state.
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