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As part of efforts to ensure food security, Lagos State government, yesterday, said its target was to meet 25 percent of food production in the state by 2018.
This came as the state government concluded plans to construct a Metropolitan Park at Ajetutun in Ibeju-Lekki Local Government Area of the state.
Commissioner for Agriculture and Cooperatives, Prince Gbolahan Lawal, who disclosed this while briefing newsmen on the activities slated for this year’s World Food Day at Alausa, Ikeja, said the decision to set the 25 percent target was to ensure that the state’s teeming population did not at any time experience food scarcity.
Lawal added that apart from the acquisition of land from Osun, Oyo and Ogun states and Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, respectively, for farming purposes, the state was also embarking on several programmes and projects targeted at boosting food production in the state.
He said: “For fish production, in 2010, we were able to produce 109,000 metric tonnes. At the end of December 2013, we are at 159,000 metric tonne.”
He added that demand for rice was huge, and Nigeria will benefit a lot if only the players in the private sector partner with the state government to boost rice production.



http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/10/lagos-targets-25-food-production-2018/

We don take all the land build houses oh........The rest na water

We have the land and the labour (population) achieving this should be easy. Government should encourage we youth to go into agriculture. #AgricultureForSelfSustainance

GOOD

Owk

[size=26pt]That's why we need to vote wisely come 2015 to ensure continuation of these good works and initiatives

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Agriculture all the way

I pray the idea is not overtaken by the usual corruptible

Haha will dey plant on top peoples house or the ocean?

That would be a miracle...cos I see the cultivation done on third mainland bridge... All lagos lagoons sinks and no fish can survive in such waters where solid,chemical, toxic waste are dumped into lagos water bodies indiscriminately!

After they have finished using all their lands to build houses where do they want to get spaces to farm.

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I hope it works...and one good idea is off shore fish farms.

Japan also has some ideas about growing food indoors.

Wiki article on offshore aquaculture

Good one

Good one! LASG

Ebola nko

Mk the food no b cocoa and sugarcane. Mk e b confirm rice.cassava,maize,beans and yam.

Ti onje ba kuro ni inu ise , ise bu se

ok

BRF is trying I'm waiting 4 d Day ds man will be d President of Nigeria.

Lasgidi oya lead them,show them that u can be a majoy playmaker in food production.

Good.......... buh whr the land dey

Nice one

Dat' gOod o

So no land in Lagos. The govt should invest in building skyscrapers to save land.

G.oj

hmm..

...and that's a government that plans and and acts accordingly, not some vagabonds who lack proper planning abilities

Shitty lagos have no land for that mhen