LASG EMPOWERS MORE FARMERS FOR IMPROVED FOOD PRODUCTION AND SECURITY

LASG EMPOWERS MORE FARMERS FOR IMPROVED FOOD PRODUCTION AND SECURITY
In line with Governor Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu’s commitment to ensuring food security through improved production techniques, reducing unemployment, hunger and poverty, and creating sustainable socioeconomic lives for the people of Lagos State, the government, through the Centre for Rural Development (CERUD), has trained a total number of two hundred youths and farmers from Imota Local Council Development Area and Epe Local Government in fish production, management and processing.

Speaking at the event, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Rural Development, Dr Nurudeen Yekinni Lanre-Agbaje, expressed the determination of the government to eradicate hunger and poverty in Lagos state through consistent training and retraining, and Empowerment of the youths; promising further necessary assistance to those who make good use of the Empowerment materials given to them.

Speaking in a similar vein, the Director, CERUD, Mr Musibau Muyiwa Balogun, admonished the participants to see the programme as a unique opportunity to gain knowledge from the expertise of the seasoned and experienced facilitators offered by the training to enhance their socioeconomic stability and to enjoy a more vibrant life and livelihood.

He stated further that a feedback mechanism has been put in place to determine the impact of the programme and to discover other levels of intervention that may be required in future.

Responding, some of the visibly elated participants were full of praises to Mr Governor and his team for these uncommon gestures, and promising to leverage on the knowledge gained to positively transform their lives, and to contribute meaningfully to the socioeconomic transformation of Lagos State.

The participants were taking through theoretical and practical sessions on fish breeding, hatching, production, management, harvesting and processing. Fifty (50) beneficiaries each from Imota LCDA and Epe Local Government were later provided with fish tanks, fish kilns and fish feed.