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Provision Of Silos At Four Agricultural Zones To Support Buybacks

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Source: Campaign Manifesto (Accelerated road map to development 2019-2023)

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May 24, 2024

Seyi Makinde Breaks Promise to Provide Silos at Four Agricultural Zones

Governor Seyi Makinde's campaign promise to provide silos at four agricultural zones to support buyback during his first term (May 2019-May 2023) was fundamentally broken. 

 

The manifesto explicitly stated: “Provision of silos at the four (4) agricultural zones to support buyback”. 

 

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By May 2021 (two years into office), official government records indicated "The silo project is ongoing," and as of July 2022 (three years in), it remained "ongoing" with no completion date in sight.

 

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Former Gov. of Oyo state, Late Sen. Ajimobi on a visit to the single 10,000 metric-tonne silo project in 2017

 

Instead of establishing silos in four agricultural zones as promised, the administration inherited and attempted to complete a single 10,000 metric-tonne silo project at Awe Junction in Oyo East LGA initiated under the previous administration. 

 

The promise to provide multiple silos across four agricultural zones with dedicated buyback infrastructure was never attempted, let alone delivered. The promise was broken.

May 24, 2024

OYSADA Distributes Farm Inputs to 965 Farmers in Oyo

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).

May 24, 2024

Oyo Govt. Begins Special Agro Processing Zones in Partnership with African Development Bank

Source: The Guardian 

The Guardian has reported the progress made by the Oyo State government in the development of agriculture in the state. The report clearly shows that the State government has started Special Agro Processing Zones in several parts of the state in partnership with the African Development Bank and the International Institute for Agriculture.

The report also highlights the renovation and rejuvenation of four moribund agricultural facilities in the state. These facilities are the Oyo State Agriculture Development Programme (OYSADEP) facility in Saki, Fasola Farm Settlement in Fasola, Oyo, the Rural Community Development Centre in Awe, and the OYSADEP Fabrication Centre at Apata.

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