The Senate Leader, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, has said that the administration of President Bola Tinubu is determined to achieve food security as part of his renewed hope agenda for the country.
He noted that the administration in almost two years has invested in the agriculture sector towards reducing the price of food items and banishing poverty in the land.
The senate leader spoke in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti state capital, on Tuesday, while empowering some farmers with modern implements to boost food production in the state.
Items distributed included one big tractor, 10 power tillers, and cartons of liquid fertilizers.
The senator, represented by a prominent All Progressives Congress chieftain, Remi Oguntuase, pledged continued support to the well-being of farmers, not only in his district but across the state.
Bamidele said the empowerment was in tandem with the cardinal objectives of Tinubu’s administration and the Ekiti State government under Governor Biodun Oyebanji to make lives more abundant for the people.
According to him, “This gesture is to improve food production in Ekiti State. Improved food production will help in stamping out hunger and poverty among our people.
“The implements we are donating are modern ones, we need to improve our methods of production. We can’t continue to do things the old way.
“I appreciate President Tinubu and Governor Oyebanji’s commitments to improving agriculture in Nigeria and Ekiti State through adequate support to our farmers.
“This is the line every level of government must follow because over 60% of our population depends on agriculture.”
The Ekiti state Commissioner for Agriculture and Food Security, Ebenezer Boluwade, urged farmers to ensure proper use of empowerment equipment to improve food production in the state.
He added that the judicious use of the equipment will justify the purpose for which they were meant, which was to ensure increased food production.
The commissioner advised the farmers that regular servicing of the equipment will ensure they last long, urging them to embrace best practices to contribute to the state’s efforts towards food sufficiency.
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