NDBDA, Agro-Allied Firm Partner On Vegetables Production

The Managing Director
of the Niger Delta Basin Development Authority  (NDBDA), Mr Onoye Beredugo, has revealed plans by the authority to establish a vegetable farm for the production of organic fruits.
Beredugo, in a statement issued in Port Harcourt yesterday stated that the authority was doing so in partnership with Mildred Transgold Medical Equipment Ventures.
The statement which was made available to our correspondent further explained that the company was a corporate agro-allied developer and processor of agricultural products.
The NDBDA boss explained that the partnership between the two outfits was geared toward the establishment of a functional organic farm.
According to him, the farm when fully operational would come up with such products as okro, cucumber, carrot and water melon amongst others.
He added that other vegetables would be produced in commercial quantities to enable the partnership achieve its set goal, even as it said the process was in line with the Federal Government’s policy on public private sector partnership.
On the proposed location of the project, Beredugo said the authority had enough farmland to site the farm.
According to the statement, NDBDA would make available its four-hectare farmland situated at Egberu Community in Oyigbo Local Government Area of the state for the project.
Also, the Managing Director of Mildred Transgold Medical Equipment Ventures, Mr. Samuel Okere was quoted as saying that his company would adequately put the land into use.
“We pledge to optimally utilize the farmland and also effectively deliver in terms of adequate farm produce”, he said.
The partnership, our correspondent further gathered was to afford the two organizations the opportunity of contributing their quota in the diversification process of the nation’s economy away from oil.