Governor Rauf Aregbesola of the State of Osun is currently in Germany as part of the efforts to strenghten the boind between German and The State of Osun on agriculture and allied products.

In the recent past, over 40 indigenes of Osun had benefited from the exchange programme aimed at sustaining the state as the food hun of Nigeria.


Comrade Aregbesola led delegation stopped at Lindau, in the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld, Germany where he had a one-on-one interaction with agriculture experts who have shown keen interest in assisting the state to lift up her agro potentials.Osun state Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola alongside his delegates with German farmer, Arnold de Vries

Arnold de Vries had taken-in two interns from Osun State for training on his farm in the summer of 2016.


Osun, is an agricultural state and significantly larger than Saxony-Anhalt, but modern agriculture is still a long shot and the Governor’s team is ambitious to close the gap.


That is why the project “Support for Capacity Building in Food Production” was launched in 2012 between States of Saxony-Anhalt in Germany and Osun in Nigeria, for youths of the state to undergo internships in modern agricultural enterprises in Saxony-Anhalt.


Well over 40 Nigerians from the state of Osun have already benefited from this scheme.


This was confirmed by Ogbeni Aregbesola during his visit to Bauer de Vries in Lindau. “We have to feed our population somehow, and effective agriculture, as it is done here in Germany, can help us,” he said.


His visit to Saxony-Anhalt is a kind of educational trip. However, the trip is also intended to thank the farmers who took interns in for hands-on training.


The administration has invested heavily in laying the foundations for modern agriculture in the state, and lies in wait for bountiful harvest. Recall that Ogbeni Aregbesola recently ordered the planting of 5 million plantain suckers in the state of Osun as a means of providing food for the citizenry.


Governor Rauf Aregbesola was accompanied by Speaker of the State of Osun House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Najeem Saleem, amongst other top government officials.