LAGOS GOVT EMPOWERS MORE FARMERS FOR IMPROVED FOOD PRODUCTION, SECURITY
The Centre for Rural Development (CERUD) has trained 200 farmers and youths from Imota Local Council Development Area and Epe Local Government Area in fish production, management, and processing in accordance with Governor Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu’s commitment to ensuring food security through improved production techniques, reducing unemployment, hunger, and poverty while creating sustainable socioeconomic lives for the people of Lagos State.
Speaking at the event held on Thursday at the CERUD Office Complex, Igbodu, Epe, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Rural Development, Dr. Nurudeen Yekinni Lanre-Agbaje expressed the government’s determination to eradicate hunger and poverty in Lagos State through consistent training, retraining, and youth empowerment, and promising additional necessary assistance to those who effectively utilize the empowerment materials given to them.
In a similar spirit, Mr. Musibau Muyiwa Balogun, Director of CERUD, cautioned participants to view the training as a special chance to learn from the experience of the trained and seasoned facilitators in order to improve their socioeconomic stability and live a more lively life.
He added that a feedback system has been established to assess the program’s effectiveness and identify other levels of assistance that might be needed down the road.
In response, a few of the obviously thrilled attendees expressed their gratitude to Mr. Governor and his staff for the unusual actions and pledged to use the knowledge they had learned to improve their own lives and make a significant contribution to the socioeconomic development of Lagos State.
50 beneficiaries each from Imota LCDA and Epe Local Government were given fish tanks, fish kilns, and fish feed after the participants completed theoretical and hands-on lessons on fish breeding, hatching, production, management, harvesting, and processing.