Source: Business Day

The Oyo State Agribusiness Development Agency (OYSADA) has distributed farm inputs to 965 farmers in twelve local government areas of Oyo state.  

The farm inputs worth millions of naira are being done under the World Bank-assisted OYS-CARES programme in which about 10,000 smallholder farmers will be benefiting in the state.  The beneficiaries were maize, tomatoes, cassava, and rice farmers with some from the Oyo State Youth Entrepreneurship in Agribusiness Project (YEAP) who received training at CSS Farms, Nasarawa State in 2022.  

Kolawole Bamigbola revealed that in Oriire/Surulere/Ogbomoso LGAs, a total of 260 farmers were given farm inputs in Ibarapa East, Ibarapa North, Ido LGAs, there were 250 beneficiaries.  He, however, stated that the development was in line with the promise of Seyi Makinde to ameliorate the suffering of farmers across all the 33 local governments of the state that were affected by the covid-19 pandemic through OYO-Cares programmes in conjunction with the World Bank under the Oyo State Agribusiness Agency (OYSADA).