Breaking News

Osun begins Interview for shortlisted Teachers across the State | Ifon-Ilobu-Erin Osun Communal Crisis: Adeleke Relaxes Curfew, Now 9pm—5am daily | Gov Adeleke expresses concern over Ilesha Correctional Centre Jail Break | Owa Coronation: Governor Adeleke Lists Achievements Across Ijesaland, Commends Tinubu over Ibadan-Ilesa Road Contract | You and Your Team are Doing A Phenomenal Job. | Food Security: Hon. Babatola Faseru Commends Governor Adeleke, Urges Farmers to Maximize Use of Distributed Tractors | Adeleke Spokesperson to Bashiru: Stop Using Fake News as a Campaign Strategy | Badly Constructed Road: Governor Adeleke Deploys Top Officials to Community, Directs urgent Review | Why Ajibola Bashiru is Blind to Osun 7th Examination Ranking and 1st SW Prize on Health – Adeleke’s Spokesperson | GOVERNOR ADELEKE CONGRATULATES DR AKINOLA ON APPOINTMENT AS SWDC MD | Governor Adeleke Eulogises Dele Momodu at 65 | Osun APC Haunted by Monumental Failure of 2018 to 2022 – Adeleke’s Spokesperson | IGBALAYE LAUDS GOVERNOR ADELEKE ON 65TH BIRTHDAY, COMMENDS HIS VISIONARY LEADERSHIP. | GOVERNOR ADELEKE GREETS OSUN-BORN BUSINESSMAN, PRINCE ELUDOYIN AT 77. | Governor Adeleke Extols Retiring Appeal Court Judge Jimi-Bada Virtues, Described him as an Embodiment of Dignity and Judicial Conscience | Governor Adeleke Hails Commissioner For Rural Development, Alhaji Ayobami Olaoluwa on His Birthday | Work Commences Next Month on Abandoned Osun House Project in Abuja – Governor Adeleke | 79th Birthday: Governor Adeleke Felicitates Asiwaju Musulumi, Olatunde Khamis Badmus | How Osun Attain 7th Position in National Examination Rating-Governor Adeleke | Gov Adeleke Fulfils Another Promises as Hajj Camp Reaches 70 % Completion | Butchers, Teachers Commend Good Governance in Osun, Endorses Governor Adeleke for 2026
Webmaster January 30, 2017

Osun Govt. Liaises With Germany To Foster Modern Agriculture

The Osun state government has led a delegation to Germany in search of new insights on modern agriculture, in order to further realise the dream of making the state, the food basket of Nigeria’s South West region.
The state Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, believes that this would help empower citizens and improve the quality of life in the state.
On Saturday, an Aregbesola-led delegation, including Speaker of the State of Osun House of Assembly, Najeem Saleem, amongst other top government officials, stopped at Lindau, in the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld, Germany.
They asked series of questions about modern agriculture, hoping for new insights from German farmers like Arnold de Vries whom they visited on his sheep farm.
In the summer of 2016, Arnold de Vries had taken in two interns from Osun state for training.
Although the trip was intended to be educational, it was also an opportunity for the government to thank the farmers who took interns in for the training.
Osun, is an agricultural state and significantly larger than Saxony-Anhalt, but modern agriculture, according to the government, is still a long shot and the governor’s team is ambitious to close the gap.
This is part of the reasons why the project, “Support for Capacity Building in Food Production” was launched in 2012.
The governor however stated that so far, well over 40 Nigerians from the state have benefited from this scheme.
“We have to feed our population somehow, and effective agriculture, as it is done here in Germany, can help us,” he said.
The administration has invested heavily in laying the foundations for modern agriculture in the state, and lies in wait for bountiful harvest.
It can be recalled that the governor recently ordered the planting of 5 million plantain suckers in the state, also as a means of ensuring food security.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *