BAT Nigeria supports 500 maize farmers to boost food production
Commissioner Bolu Owotomo of Agriculture in Abeokuta announces capacity building for maize farmers, distributing inputs for food sufficiency. 500 farmers receive maize, fertilizers, and insecticides. British American Tobacco Nigeria Foundation praised for support, urged to consider women and financial inclusion. General Manager Oludare Odunsanya highlights increased food production. Chairman Olanrewaju Kokumo applauds initiative, vows to enhance maize production sustainably for food sufficiency.
The Commissioner for Agriculture, Bolu Owotomo, said this at a capacity building and inputs distribution for smallholder maize farmers across the state on Friday in Abeokuta. Owotomo noted that the initiative was to attain food sufficiency in the state.
He added that beneficiaries would be empowered with maize, fertilisers and insecticides. Owotomo added that they were expected to make the best use of the training and inputs to boost their production.Owotomo who commended the British American Tobacco Nigeria Foundation for the intervention programme called for continued private sector support in the state’s agricultural development efforts to attain food sufficiency.
The commissioner, however, emphasised the need for the foundation to consider women farmers, especially in rural areas and financial inclusion in their next intervention programmes, to achieve food security.
Earlier, Oludare Odunsanya, General Manager, British American Tobacco Nigeria Foundation, explained that the farm input distribution to 500 maize farmers in the state was to provide succour amidst hardship,
Odusanya said that the support would enhance food production and increase the commodity’s availability.
On his part, Olanrewaju Kokumo, Chairman, Maize Farmers Association of Nigeria, Ogun chapter, lauded the foundation and the state government for the capacity building and input support programme.
Kokumo added that the inputs support would significantly increase the production rate of maize commodity. He, however, called for sustainability of the initiative to empower farmers in the state, promising that they would make judicious use of the farm inputs to increase food sufficiency.
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