AJUMOSE AGRICULTURE - DO YOU KNOW: #DoYouKnow

▪That the current global market value (gmv) of Cashew and its value chain is extremely high and outwits even crude oil; and that while Nigeria has the best cashew nuts in the World, #Oyo State has the best in the country. This is why the biggest Cashew Nut processing factory is being set up in Oyo State at the moment.

▪ That 84% [23, 901 sq.km] of the total land area of Oyo state [28,453sq.km] is arable land.

▪ That there are 9 organised farm settlements across our heavily agrarian Oyo state, with a total of 22 dams pulling a capacity of 11,413,00m3 and 126ha irrigable land.

▪That these 22 dams provide water all year round, ensuring the possibility of dry season farming.

▪That Oyo is going digital with agriculture with the "Know Your Farmer" (KYF) initiative; where location, farmer details, commodity, and the size of farm of each farmer can be accessed at a the click of a button.

▪That there's a new land policy to ease access to farmland to new and existing farmers, with a view to expand agricultural production within the state.

▪That Oyo state has leveraged extensively on having the highest number of functional Agricultural Research Institutes (5), by securing constant transfer of knowledge to further aid our agricultural drive.

▪ That rice will soon be produced in hugely commercial quantity in Oyo state off from the MoU signed with the Dangote Group.

▪That the biggest rice processing facility in Nigeria will be here in Oyo state, as this Dangote’s 16-hectare Integrated Rice Mill will require paddy from a minimum of '20000 Hectare' cultivated land.

▪That this will be a very viable project because of the rich Rice belt in the Oke-Ogun area, as the superior soil quality therein, infers that our rice is set to be of top quality in yield and taste!

▪That this Dangote Rice Outgrowership Scheme under the Oyo State Agric Initiative will empower thousands of smallholder rice farmers and consequently bring Oyo State to the frontier of rice production in Nigeria.

▪ That there is the construction of first-class, first-of-its-kind and fully-mechanized 10,000 metric ton agricultural storage silos in the senatorial districts of Oyo state for the storage of our cash crops and grains. The one situated in Awe will be commissioned soon.

▪ That we launched the Oyo State Pacesetter Farm (Integrated Farming model - Shonghai model) to complement our desire to be the foodbasket of the Southwest.

▪ That 458 members of Nigeria cassava growers association were empowered with N280,000 each.

▪ That 850 farmers were empowered with N250,000 in the feedwell vegetable planting program.

▪ That there are 18 Large Farms and Agribusiness setups across the state [12 Cassava, 4 Poultry, 1 Aquaculture and 1 Livestock]

Well, now you know!

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This is still OK. But Oyo state still get comma

keep dreaming when others are having result.