unused allotted agricultural land risk revocation Cassava Farm

AS part of measures to ensure food security for its teeming population in the megacity, the Lagos State government has threatened to henceforth, revoke all land allocated for agricultural use but abandoned or converted to other uses.
According to the state government such land taken over will be handed over to those who are ready to use them for agricultural purpose.

Cassava farm

Commissioner for Agriculture and Cooperatives, Prince Gbolahan Lawal, who frowned at the practice said no allocated land should be left fallow as the state has limited land with more people still expressing interest in allocation.

“Government will not allow any land allocated for agriculture purpose to be used for any other business. The allottees should take possession of their land for farming purposes immediately.”, Lawal directed.

Fish farm at Ikorodu
According to him, “The 400-plot Ketu Ereyun fish farm estate to produce about 10,000 tonnes of fish per annum at full capacity has been laid out and allocation made to the first 162 investors. Based on the experience at Ikorodu fish farm where land speculators were observed, the allotees were given only six months to mobilize to site of lose allocation.”

He added that government would provide the necessary support services needed, such as giving them institutional supports, exposing them to credit facility and latest technology in the agricultural sector and capacity building in the agric business.

Lawal, said government had set standard at all the farm estates, by providing infrastructure, access to inputs, marketing strategy and extension services to make production easy and convenient for allottee.

He said the AGRIC–YES programme in Abia, Badagry is fashioned after the project Songhai in Benin Republic and replicated in other states in the country, assuring that an average of 1000 youth will be trained by the programme per annum.