The Abia State Government has initiated moves to create a database for farmers in the state to indicate their produce and the location of their farms.
The state’s commissioner for agriculture, Dr Cliff Agbaeze announced this while speaking to newsmen in Umuahia, the capital, saying the moves had reached advanced stage.
He said this is aimed at ensuring that farmers key into the many agriculture programmes of both the state and federal governments as well as those of other intervention agencies in the sector.
Agbaeze also advocated the incorporation of agriculture practice into both basic and secondary school education in the state to encourage the young ones embrace agriculture.
He pointed out that what the administration is doing in the sector is not only transformational, but also revolutionary to underscore the sector’s importance to the economy of the state.
“Abians must be food secured and sovereign. We should be able to contribute to the economic growth of the state through the sector,” he said.
Agbaeze, who noted with delight the various programmes and policies the administration had embarked on in the sector, urged the people to join the moves.
LEADERSHIP recalls that ahead of the just held 2024 World Food Day in the state, the commissioner had stressed that agriculture holds so much hope for the economy and cannot be neglected further.
