Amosun emphasises industrialisation through agriculture

GOVERNORIbikunleAmosun of Ogun State has reiterated the need for the country to give serious attention to agriculture and accord less priority to the petroleum sector.The governor said this during a two-day retreat organised by the state government at the Training and Conference Centre, Ogere, for top political office holders and bureaucrats in the state, to review the journey so far in the six-month-old administration and chart the way forward into the future.Governor Amosun explained that agriculture remains one of his administration's five cardinal programmes and that government would do all it could to revive all the moribund farm settlements established by the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, who used agriculture as instrument to industrialise the old Western Region.According to him: 'We are not too happy with the state of our farm settlements located across the state, the state government would do all it can to ensure that the moribund farm settlements are put into proper shape. We have equally learnt that only 15 per cent of our land are being cultivated. This is unacceptable to us. We would encourage our young ones to go back into farming. We have equally concluded plans to establish agro-processing industries, to further encourage our farmers.
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