The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has charged farmers in the South South to see the agricultural projects executed in their communities as their own with a view to ensuring sustainability of the projects.
Speaking during a workshop on impact assessment of inputs and projects to farmers for South South farmers in Benin, state coordinator of the ministry in Edo, Mr Wellington Omoragbon, said the workshop served as a feedback mechanism that would guide management in the decision making process.
“We are also here to appeal to you to take ownership of these projects for sustainability. When you maintain these projects, it will encourage the government to do more,” he said.
He said the ministry had supported farmers in Edo with food dehydrator, motorised oil palm harvester, cashew crackers, water pumps, knapsack sprayers, agrochemicals, cassava cuttings, oil palm and coconuts seedlings, processing equipment as well as provision of solar street lights.
$2bn power grid maintenance, expansion, rehabilitation ongoing—FG
JAMB remitted N50bn to FG in six years – Oloyede
He added that the government had also executed borehole projects in several communities, constructed feeder farm roads across the three senatorial districts of the state.
One of the participants from River State, Mr Godwin Akandie, commended the ministry for all the projects, saying farming has been made easy with the provision of inputs.
“We are about ten cassava farmers in our cooperative society. The ministry gave us a cassava processing machine and improved cassava cuttings,” he said.
