LASG to set up food production in Epe, Badagry
By Abimbola Oloyede Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has said that the State Government would establish two food production centers in Epe and Badagry to be known as Lagos Food Production Centres in order to ensure sustained food production and supply in the state. Governor Sanwoolu who spoke in Lagos at the symbolic distribution of agricultural inputs and productive assets to 2,743 farmers under the 2020 agricultural value chains empowerment programme explained that the two centres would ensure the resuscitation, expansion, stocking of agricultural production facilities in various value chains. Sanwo-Olu who was represented by his deputy, Obafemi Hamzat noted that the two centers would also develop Agro-Tourism centres in Badagry and the Agricultural Training Institute, Araga, Epe. The Governor pointed out that in addition, the State Government would also establish the Lagos Aquaculture Centre of Excellence (LACE), a ten Billion Naira project to be located on a ...