Delta State Government has reiterated its determination to boost food production by repositioning the Agricultural sector for efficient service delivery.
The State Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Barr. Misan Kubenyinje, stated this while fielding questions from pressmen after a meeting with the Association of Cassava Growers, Delta State chapter, in his office in Asaba.
Barr. Kubenyinje said that the main focus that the present administration was to promote massive food production by supporting the farmers in the state, adding that farming in-puts, such as high yielding cassava cuttings, fertiliser and fingerlings, would be distributed to the farmers across the state at a very low price.
He enjoined farmers in the state to form themselves into cluster groups to enable them go into commercial farming as well as to access the various loans available for the promotion and development of Agriculture in the state.
The Commissioner disclosed that the Federal Government had concluded plans to start cassava processing factories in the country with Delta State as one of the major processing centres, stressing that such a bold stride would not only enhance food sufficiency but would encourage the farmers to produce more for exportation which in- turn would increase the foreign exchange earning of the country.
Barr. Kubenyinje said that the Youth Empowerment Through Agriculture scheme (YETA) would be strengthened, adding that the first batch of the young farmers that went through the programme were doing well in their various chosen agricultural vocations, just as he said that the FADAMA programme had come to stay in the state.
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