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.
