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Governor of Lagos state, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has announced plans to establish a N10 billion Lagos Aquaculture Centre of Excellence (LACE) project to be located in Igbonla, Epe under a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement.

He also announced plans to build two food production centers namely; State Songhai project in Badagry and the Agricultural Training Institute, Araga, Epe. The LACE project is located on a 35 hectares of land in Igbonla.

The State Governor, represented by his deputy Dr Obafemi Hamzat announced this during the 2020 Agricultural Value Chains Empowerment Programme at Police College, Ikeja and named the project Lagos Aquaculture Centre (LACE).

He explained that the project is aimed at ensuring sustained food production and supply, resuscitation, expansion, stocking of agricultural production facilities in various value chains in the state. It was designed to boost the growth of aquaculture industry in the state through the direct production of 2,000 tonnes of fish annually.

Read more: https://yinksmedia.com/lagos-to-establish-a-n10-billion-aquaculture-and-food-production-centre-in-epe-and-badagry/

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