By Adibe Emenyonu in Benin City
The Rector of Edo State Polytechnic, Usen, Professor Abiodun Falodun, said the institution has commenced oil palm milling and has set modalities for the development of a palm plantation to promote enterprise and research.
Speaking to journalists on the development at the milling facility in the school premises, in Ovia South-west Local Government Area of the state, Falodun said the polytechnic wants to revolutionise the idea of tertiary institutions as solution centres, adding that the move is to align with the state governor’s charge to institutions to become innovative in service delivery,
“With the support of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), we have set up the oil milling plant in the school. We intend to mop up the oil palm harvest from smallholder farmers in the community and mill them here to produce palm oil and other by-products.”
According to him, the institution has designed a…
