Farm Estate: Imo govt recovers abandoned ADP/demonstration farms

The Imo State Government said that efforts were on the way to recover all the Agricultural Development Programmes (ADPs) and demonstration farms across the 27 Local Government Areas of the state, in readiness for the implementation of farm estates as directed by President Muhammadu Buhari.

Speaking with Tribune Online in Owerri, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Mr Raymond Ucheoma, said that the government current plan was to make people go back to those abandoned farmlands to produce their own maize, cassava, and carry out all year round farming.

The Permanent Secretary, while describing agriculture as something people must take in, added that the essence of the estate “is to make people stay in their farm to produce food.”

He said those ADP farms and demonstration farms abandoned at the local government areas such as Ikeduru, Owerri West etc were to be used for the farm estate in the state.

According to him, the farm estates would have schools where children of farmers would go to learn, churches where farmers worship.

The permanent secretary said that the former estate was almost a community where farmers come in, work and rest as well as take annual leave to their indigenous homes.

Mr Ucheoma said that the current farm estate/settlement is not a creation of present administration rather policies in agricultural development where you put farmers in a residence where they would take care of poultry, piggery and at the end of the day, they would give produce of farms.

He said; “what I think is the new thing is asking people to go back so that they can live on their farms and then develop the estate.”

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