Ogun State Launches Cassava Processing Centre and Solar Borehole in Obafe
Ogun State has inaugurated a new cassava processing centre and solar-powered borehole in Obafe Community to boost food production and support rural development. The Commissioner for Agriculture and Food Security said the facility, delivered under the IFAD-assisted Value Chain Development Programme, will serve four farmer groups and about sixty members. It is the second major agricultural infrastructure handed over in Obafe in the past year. Over sixteen thousand farmers have benefited from the Ogun State Economic Transformation Project, with more than twelve thousand hectares cleared for cultivation in the last two years. Subsidies on land clearing and farm inputs, along with direct links to produce off-takers, have also been provided. The IFAD programme now operates in eight local government areas, delivering sixteen cassava centres and fifty-five solar-powered boreholes. Officials promise more processing hubs, markets and boreholes across Ogun State in the coming months.
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