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The Governor of the State of Lagos, Babajide Sanwo-Oell, presented an N5 billion check to his state counterpart of the Niger, the governor Mohammed Umaru Bago, for the production of cereals and other food products in strategic partnership aimed at improving food safety and agricultural productivity.
The check was presented to the Governor of the State of the Niger at the launch of N500 billion products “produced for Lagos” held at Lagos House, Alausa, Ikeja.
The main press secretary of the Governor of the State of the Niger, Bologi Ibrahim, declared it in a declaration issued in Minna, adding that “the control of N5 billion is for the cultivation of rice, ignore and beans under a strategic partnership aimed at improving food safety and agricultural productivity”.
According to him, the agricultural initiative “produces for Lagos” also aligns with the renewed agricultural agenda of the hope of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to improve agricultural production through interstatal collaboration in food production “.
Receiving the check, the governor of the farmers Umaru Bago highlighted the potential of the state, in particular in the agriculture area, explaining that the objectives of the partnership are for the cultivation of rice, ignore and beans to establish an influx of coordinated agricultural products and guided by data in the state of Lagos.
He explained that the strategic partnership also includes the promotion of the institution and functioning of agricultural properties and aggregation infrastructures in the State of Niger to improve food safety, economic development and interstatal agricultural trade, among others.
“The state of Lagos should provide acquisition agreements guaranteed through its authorized mass aggregators, facilitate the issue of loans in the capital circulating to the aggregation company of the Niger for acquisition operations, allow access to Lagos Food Logistics Hub and other food markets managed by a number of markets based on market products and food assistance based on food market.
He said that the state of the Niger, on the other hand, is to allocate the land for the development of agricultural estates that aim to key goods requested from Lagos, facilitate the registration and configuration of the Niger aggregation company in line with the program standards, including the supply of support infrastructures such as access roads and users for agriculture and agencies.
The state is also required to develop regulations to facilitate interstatal food logistics without continuity and the operations of the private sector.
“To ensure and guide an effective implementation, as well as trace progress, a joint management committee will be established with equal representation of both states even if the PDO of the program delivery office will be constituted to coordinate the daily implementation with aggregates, agricultural developers and logistical operators,” he said.
According to him, the partnership is for an initial five -year period, renewable by a common agreement.
