By Biola Lawal
Oshogbo (Flowerbudnews) Gov. Ademola Adeleke has distributed over 8,000 bundles of hybrid cassava stems to farmers as part of government’s efforts to boost food production in Osun state.
The Special Adviser to the Governor on Agriculture, Hon. Olaniran Akanfe, who disclosed this in an interview with Flowerbudnews in Oshogbo, said that the
Cassava stems were shared to farmers across the 30 local government areas of the state free.
Hon. Akanfe told Flowerbudnews that the gesture was part of Gov. Adeleke’s resolve to achieve adequate food production in the state at minimal cost to farmers.
The Special Adviser disclosed that while sharing the thousands of bundles of cassava stems, the Governor also distributed thousands of nursed hybrid Cashew trees to the farmers for establishment of cashew farms.
Hon. Akanfe disclosed that the state government had also shared thousands of insecticide to the farmers to ease their farming operations and also help them safe cost.
Flowerbudnews Correspondent who visited the state ministry of Agriculture reports that farmers from different local government areas of the state were seen collecting bundles the Adeleke hybrid cassava stems.
”I am so happy to collect Ege Adeleke and I pray that GOD will continue to be with our dedicated and kind Governor,” one farmer, Mr. AbdulRauf Sakariya told FLOWERBUDNEWS in an interview after collecting bundles of the hybrid cassava stem
Officials of the Ministry were seen meticulously documenting particulars and details of the identities of the benefiting farmers and their farms.
A beneficiary farmer who collected several bundles of the hybrid cassava stems and several nursed trees of hybrid cashew for planting told FLOWERBUDNEWS that;
”it is incredible a governor and his government can be this nice to the people, no farmer will collect this free and would not pray for more GOD’s blessings to Gov. Adeleke”.
”Infact, people in Abuja should come and learn how to run an effective and beneficial government from our Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke,’: the farmer, Ayofe Olalere told FLOWERBUDNEWS.
