Ekiti to Partner Foreign, Local Investors to Boost Agriculture

Tamarauemi Ebimini

The Ekiti State Government has disclosed its readiness to partner with foreign and local investors to uplift  the state and make it a microcosm of development in the country.

Deputy Governor of Ekiti state, Chief (Mrs) Christianah Monisade Afuye, made the disclosure in Ado Ekiti yesterday  while playing host to the Special Adviser to the Canada President on International Affairs, Reverend Deji Babajide Kayode, who paid  her a visit.

Specifically, Afuye said Governor Biodun Oyebanji was incurably committed to attract private investors to boost agriculture and make Ekiti the food basket of the nation, owing to the comparative advantage the state enjoys in the sector.

The deputy governor, in a statement by her Special Assistant on Media, Victor Ogunje, revealed that adequate funding to propel commercial agriculture forms part of the cardinal programmes and policy thrust  of the present government, saying the government was  receptive to any partnership that would  galvanise support for the sector in the state.

The deputy governor added that  Ekiti has favourable atmospheric conditions as well as vast land resource to undertake  commercial farming for food production and youth employment.

Afuye,  however, reiterated that no efforts would be spared by Governor Oyebanji’s administration to radicalise the agricultural sector, particularly being receptive to partnerships with private organisations and foreign investors to rejig the sector.