The Model Farm Estate at Owowo, Ogun State, built by the Senator Ibikunle Amosun-led administration, will become operational next month, the state Commissioner for Agriculture, Mrs Ronke Sokefun, has revealed.
Sokefun disclosed this in Abeokuta during a media chat, saying the project was a deliberate step of the government to increase food production, create employment opportunities and ensure industrialisation.
Sokefun affirmed that would-be beneficiaries, who are basically unemployed graduates of agriculture drawn from all the three senatorial districts, had been selected strictly on merit.
“We started this process by placing adverts to invite all interested agriculture graduates. They went through series of examinations and oral interviews. Their selection was based on merit and was spread across the state. Successful applicants will, therefore, occupy the estate by first week in August,” she said.
On the mode of operation within the farm estate, the commissioner declared that resident farmers, to be provided with modern houses, were expected to practise different forms of farming, including fishery, poultry, animal husbandry, among others, adding that the government would provide chicks and fingerlings for them.
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