Ex-Minister Advocates Agro-Allied Business For Anambra

The immediate past Min
ister of Aviation, Princess Stella Oduah, has stated that the economic destiny of Anambra State lies  in the development of the state’s agro-allied business.
Oduah who expressed the view recently while addressing agricultural stakeholders in the State, identified robust entrepreneurship buoyed by investment in agriculture as the surest way to lift Anambra Communities out of poverty.
“Our people have innate skills  in aspects of agriculture like crop farming, fishery, agro-allied business and education , but it is regrettable that these skills and potentials remain largely untapped,” he said.
The former Minister stressed the need for an alignment of factors to help trigger the much anticipated agriculral transformation in the state, even as she said the state needed good people, policies and programmes to help them tap the available potentials.
She further called for the establishment of farm settlements in the entire Anambra-North Senatorial Zone for the storage and collection centres with power plants to provide energy to storage facilities.
Oduah however, praised the Federal Government for approving cargo terminals in airports and export processing zones across the country, noting that with the approval of cargo terminals in Asaba and Owerri, the zone would begin the export of perishable agric goods to different parts of the world.
“These facilities will make it easier for those in the agriculture and agro- allied business to get their produce and products to the international market,” she said.