Lagos State Government has produced solar-powered kiosks for farmers, agripreneurs and other stakeholders to ensure easy and effective market access.
This was disclosed on the Lagos State Government official twitter handle, @followlasg.
According to the Acting Commissioner for Agriculture, Ms. Abisola Olusanya, the kiosks are potential revenue earners and savers for small businesses, particularly, farmers with perishable food.
The kiosks she also said would help them keep their businesses open for a longer period than they would have, if there was no means of electricity.
In addition to producing renewable energy, she mentioned that the kiosks would also dispense clean energy while excess power is distributed through the main grids, thus, allowing for charging of other devices such as refrigerators and other gadgets.
Olusanya made known that the kiosks would be distributed at next Value Chain Empowerment Programme of the State Government later this month.
The solar-powered kiosk according the Commissioner was the brainchild of the World Bank Assisted Agro-Processing, Productivity Enhancement and Livelihood Improvement Support (APPEALS) Project, whose core interventions are food security, agro-export potentials and livelihood improvement.
