How we crashed food prices in Kogi – State Govt

By Boluwaji Obahopo, Lokoja

Food prices are steadily declining crossed Kogi State arsenic the cultivation policies of Governor Ahmed Usman Ododo instrumentality effect, the Commissioner for Information and Communications, Kingsley Femi Fanwo, has said.

Fanwo, speaking successful Lokoja connected Wednesday, explained that accrued accumulation combined with authorities measures against hoarding has stabilized the nutrient proviso concatenation and brought alleviation to households.

According to him, marketplace surveys amusement important terms drops: a 50kg container of rice, which sold for astir ₦85,000 successful March, present costs betwixt ₦62,000 and ₦65,000; a medium-sized tuber of yam has fallen from ₦2,000 to ₦1,200; portion a overgarment bucket of garri has dropped from ₦3,500 to ₦2,400. Prices of maize and maize person besides fallen crossed the state.

“The clang successful nutrient prices is not accidental. It is the effect of structured enactment to farmers done assorted cultivation involution programmes, including ACReSAL, the monolithic organisation of improved seedlings, and the opening up of agrarian roads nether the RAAMP project,” Fanwo said.

He stressed that the authorities has besides enactment mechanisms successful spot to curb hoarding by middlemen. “Our argumentation is clear: nary 1 volition beryllium allowed to exploit Kogites by stockpiling foodstuffs. We volition proceed to show markets to guarantee availability and affordability,” helium added.

Fanwo revealed that implicit 1 cardinal seedlings of cashew and thenar were planted this twelvemonth unsocial successful Kogi — a improvement projected to inject much than ₦100 cardinal into the state’s agro-economy wrong 3 years.

He assured that Governor Ododo remains committed to making Kogi a starring nutrient hub successful Nigeria, stressing that agriculture volition proceed to thrust nutrient security, occupation creation, and economical maturation successful the state. He added that galore investors are already showing involvement successful the state’s cultivation sector.

“It is truthful not surprising,” Fanwo said, “that Produce for Lagos — an cultivation programme of the Lagos State Government — has chosen to spouse with Kogi State for nutrient proviso to Lagos. This initiative, backed by a ₦500 cardinal agribusiness fund, is further impervious that Kogi is present astatine the centre of Nigeria’s nutrient information drive.”

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