Use  Farm Inputs To Meet Food Security – Chairman 

The Executive Chairman of Ido Local Government Area of Oyo State, Hon. Sheriff Aderemi Adeojo, has charged the beneficiaries of the distributed  agricultural inpauts to make good use of them to meet the aspiration of the State Governor, Seyi Makinde, on food security.
The inputs, which were distributed by Oyo State Agricultural Development Agency (OYSADA), through government’s support, according to the Chairman of the council, was aimed at ensuring a bountiful harvest in the next season.
Addressing the beneficiaries shortly after the distribution of the inputs to the farmers at Ido Local Government Secretariat,  he commended the State Governor for his vision toward ensuring food sustainability across all the geo-political zones of the state.
The local government boss stated that the agricultural inputs given to the farmers are part of the programmes set aside by the State Governor to support farmers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hon. Adeojo said, “We have to appreciate our able Governor, Mr Seyi Makinde, for supporting our farmers with these agricultural inputs, which I believe, will boost the farm products of the respective beneficiaries at the end of this farming season.
“I want all the beneficiaries to make good use of their inputs as this will not only boost their products, but also complement the efforts of the State Governor toward ensuring food security across the length and breadth of the state.
“We are farmers in Ido Local government and we have school of farmers right here in our secretariat where we train our farmers on innovations in farming and mechanized ways of farming.
“I want to assure all of you that are yet to be members of this school that we will register you free of charge and we shall continue to carry you along on the benefits we have for farmers in our capacity at this local government level.
“For those of you that benefited from today’s distributions, please make good use of them, and for those of you that are yet to benefit from the kind gesture of the State Governor, I’m using this opportunity to appeal to you to relax, your time will soon come.
“I want to remind you all  that our talk-and-do Governor has again promised to assist another set of 10,000 farmers across the state. This, according to the Governor, is one of the palliatives set in motion to cushion the effect of the fuel subsidy removal, so I believe you will all be captured in the next phase of the distribution”.
The State Coordinator for Nigeria COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus (N-CARES) Result Area 2, Mr. Kolawole Adewumi Bamigbola, gave the total number of beneficiaries in Ido Local Government as 90, comprising 80  cassava farmers and 10 tomatoes farmers.
He said, “each of the cassava farmers received 20 bundles of cassava cuttings, 2 bags each of NPK fertiliser and 1 litre of herbicide. While each of the ten tomatoes farmers received 25 sachets of tomatoes seeds, one and half bags of fertiliser, 1 litre of pre-emergence herbicide, and one liter of post-emergence of herbicide”.
Bamigbola further noted a that total number of 100 farmers received agricultural inputs in Eruwa, Secretariat of Ibarapa East Local Government.
In Aiyete, Secretariat of Ibarapa North Local Government, about 60 farmers, comprising 30 cassava  and 30 maize farmers received agric inputs.
The total numbers of the beneficiaries covered so far in 12 Local Government Areas namely, Iwajowa, Kajola, Iseyin, Ibarapa East, Ibarapa North, Ido, Saki East, Oorelope, Olorunsogo, Oriire, Ogbomoso South, and Surulere, are 965 genuine farmers, comprising maize, tomatoes, cassava and rice farmers, in addition to other  beneficiaries.