Kwara Deputy Governor Flags-Off Distribution of Farm Inputs.

State Deputy Governor, Mr. Kayode Alabi giving the Farm Inputs to a beneficiary during the distribution exercise.

The Kwara State Deputy Governor, Mr. Kayode Alabi has flagged-off the distribution of farm inputs to farmers for this year's raining season farming.

The distribution exercise, which was held at the State Ministry of Agriculture Headquarters, Ilorin, had in attendance; top government functionaries, representative of the Minister of Agriculture, representative of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD), and Kwara State House of Assembly Members, among other participants.

Speaking at the flag-off ceremony, he said the intervention became necessary due to the flood disaster that occurred last year, which resulted in the loss of livelihood of farmers across the Country.
L-R: GM KWASSIP, Mallam Abdulquawiy Olododo, MD Kwara ADP, Dr. Khadijat Ahmed, Hon. Baba Salihu Boriya, State Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Mallam Gidado AbdulLateef Alakawa State Deputy Governor, Mr. Kayode Alabi, Representative of Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Godwin Oyigoga; Director Agric Services FMARD Ilorin, Dr. Kabir Aliyu; State Commissioner for Planning, Hon. Jemila Bake and Commissioner for Local Government, Chieftaincy Affair and Community Development, Hon. Aliyu Sabi Kora in a group photograph at the event.

"Agriculture remains the major source of food, poverty alleviation and source of raw materials for our local industries.

"However, the flood disaster that occurred in some parts of the State last year has resulted in unprecedented food crisis, increased poverty, high inflation, malnutrition and high level of unemployment, requiring interventions from all levels of government including international humanitarian actors", the Deputy Governor stated.

Mr. Alabi explained that the state government is not oblivious of the challenges posed by these threat to the state socio-economic development and food security.
Cross-section of the farmers at the event

He noted that the present administration remained committed to improving the standard of living of the populace through various impactful intervention programmes and projects.

Earlier, the Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Mallam Gidado AbdulLateef Alakawa appreciated Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq for providing enabling environment for the agricultural sector, through prompt payment of the State counterpart funds for Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zone (SAPZ), Livestock Productivity and Resilient Support Project (L-PRES) and the FADAMA NG CARES Project. 
State Commissioner for Agriculture, Mallam Gidado AbdulLateef Alakawa delivering his speech at the event.

The ultimate aim of these intervention programmes, Alakawa said, is to improve food security, reduce poverty and create job opportunities in the state and the country at large.

The representative of the Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Godwin Oyigoga, disclosed that the distribution exercise was as a result of a report by Cadre Harmonise (CH), under the National Programme for Food Security (NPFS), which had earlier predicted the possibility of food crisis across the states of the Federation; and the need to support farmers to avert the prediction.
State Government Officials led by the Deputy Governor, Mr. Kayode Alabi on inspection of the Inputs.

Dr. Oyigoga who is also the Head of Community Driven Development (CDD), NPFS Office, Abuja, commended the State Government collaboration and foresight towards ensuring food security in the Country.

He further appealed to the State Government for more financial support to Kwara Agricultural Development Project (ADP) Office and Cadre Harmonise for an improved service delivery.
Deputy Governor, Mr. Kayode Alabi (left) Commissioner for Agriculture, Mallam Gidado AbdulLateef Alakawa (right).

In her welcome address, the Managing Director, Kwara ADP, Dr. Khadijat Ahmed appreciated both the Federal and State Governments for their support in delivering the agency's mandate.
beneficiaries with their inputs in a group photograph with the Representative of the Hon. Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Godwin Oyigoga at Ministry of Agriculture Headquarters in Ilorin.

She promised that the agency would ensure that the beneficiaries of the agricultural inputs used it for the intended purpose.

Yusuf Ganiyu Adebisi
Press Secretary
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

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