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<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><br>The Ogun State Government has revealed plans to partner with an international food and nutrition giant company, Harvest Plus, Nigeria on bio-fortified cassava and other crops as a sustainable agriculture intervention for health and income generation.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The State Commissioner
for Agriculture, Dr Adeola Odedina, while receiving the representatives of the
Bill Gates Funded Donor Agency in his office, in Oke- Mosan Abeokuta, who paid
a courtesy visit to him, revealed that one of the vision of the current
administration is to leverage on the strengths of the private sector to deliver
on food security, income for the people and access to bio-fortified foods
(vitamin A cassava, maize, zinc, rice and orange fleshed sweet potatoes)</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Dr. Samson Odedina
submitted that discussions with the international donor agency was centred
around potential areas of partnership in promoting bio-fortified crops and
foods as a the Ogun State Government is seeking ways of creating wealth and
increasing food sufficiency among citizens of the State.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">He further stated that
the partnership will see joint activities across the value chain with special
emphasis on input delivery, capacity building for enterprise development in
production, value addition and marketing and awareness creation to drive
behaviour change and markets, noting that the Ministry will organize an
investment forum on agriculture to consolidate the ongoing agricultural
revolution programme of the State Government.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“We have received
assurance from Harvest that before the planting season, enough of these stems
will be made available to our farmers in the State. We want to start from the
seed, then the products and the locations where the products would be sold and
consumed across the State. It is a value chain approach, Odedina submitted.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">On his part, the
Country Director, Harvest Plus Nigeria, Dr. Paul Ilona, appreciated the efforts
of the State Government in taking agriculture to the next level, revealing the
coalition of donor agencies are ready to help usher the agricultural revolution
in the state that is driven by partnership that would have impact on
investments in the State.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">We see food as a tool
for the body, but in the real sense, food should be tool for nutrition, and
unless our bodies are well nourished, we will not go to full capacity.
Nutrition should primarily target the first 1000 days of a child, so we want to
thank the State Government for putting so much effort into that. For us, food
is the primary source for delivering essential micro nutrients our bodies need
to go in to full capacity. So if our foods are not nutritious, we are just
eating to fill up the stomach, Dr. Ilona said.</p>

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