Goverment Train Ebonyi States Of Nigeria Farmers, Mechanised Farming

As part of its effort to revolutionise agriculture, farmers in Ebonyi State, would soon be trained on the use of modern mechanised agricultural equipment.

The Commissioner for Agriculture, Barr. Uchenna Orji, who stated this at a joint press conference with his Information and State Orientation counterpart, Dr. Emmanuel Onwe, in Abakaliki, said the government had engaged the services of some “expatriates to train the farmers on the use of the mechanised agricultural equipment it has procured.”

Orji said that five hectares of land had been acquired and cleared at the permanent site of the state university for the exercise, adding that registered farmers and farmers’ co-operative societies would benefit from the training.

He also said that “parboiling machines would soon be installed at the three modern rice mills owned by state government to get them fully utilised.”

Orji announced the readiness of the government to enhance the aesthetic beauty of Abakaliki to make it a standard state capital, saying that the Executive Council had directed the Ministry of Environment to ensure that illegal structures were removed.

The ministry is also to plant ornamental trees by the streets.

Onwe restated the commitment of the council to the urban renewal programme of the state government, adding that the council had approved N100 million to enable the Ministry of Power to continue with the on-going urban street light project.

He hinted that it was the decision of the council that the street light project be handled systematically with the current rehabilitation of 200 kilometres of urban street roads by the Ministry of Works.

 Source : DailyTimes...