Bolu Adeosun
It is the dawn of a new era in Ogun State where efforts are in top gear to achieve self-sufficiency in food production.
Under the three and a half months old administration of Governor Dapo Abiodun, the Anchor Borrowers’ Scheme is also targeted at easing the problem of youth unemployment in the sense that the initiative has the capacity to take thousands of idle persons off the streets.
For a start, 2, 000 persons have been enlisted under the scheme which signals the commencement of what can aptly be described as agricultural revolution in Ogun.
The icing on the cake for the beneficiaries of the scheme, called Agro-preneurs, is that each of them will get a hectare of land free from the state government.
There cannot be a better way to encourage our youths to go into farming. While flagging off the scheme at the June 12 Cultural Centre, Abeokuta, Abiodun said his government plans to turn the state into an agricultural hub capable of feeding itself and other states…
Source: Thisday Newspaper
