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The Cross River governor-elect, Sen. Benedict Ayade, on Wednesday promised to revamp the state’s agricultural sector.
Ayade made the promise at an interactive session with newsmen in Calabar.
According to him, reviving the sector will ensure massive jobs creation and food security in the state.
Ayade was elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
He said his administration would make agriculture attractive for unemployed youths in the state.
''The agricultural sector is very lucrative, but youths have neglected this sector largely because of our inability to create opportunities through incentives for farms. We will give them the needed orientation, empowerment, and incentives to enable them go back to farms.
''The provision of the right business environment for investment in merchandise farming shall be our priority,’’ he said.
According to him, agriculture provides opportunity for wealth creation and also improves standard of life.
''We have large cocoa farms in Cross River and we must partner with the producers to improve the production of cocoa in the state. We will set up and maintain a farm city where every farmer will specialise in the production of at least one type of crop.
''Cross River has fertile lands, we produce rice and when it is taken to Ebonyi State for milling, it latter becomes Abakaliki rice,’’ he said.
He said all those leakages would stop as the right people and facilities would be put in place to manage the sector for optimum result.
He also said: ''the same thing goes for our cocoa, it is being taken to Ondo state and when it is being processed and taken abroad it becomes Ondo cocoa’’.
#CrossRiver #Ayade
Ayade made the promise at an interactive session with newsmen in Calabar.
According to him, reviving the sector will ensure massive jobs creation and food security in the state.
Ayade was elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
He said his administration would make agriculture attractive for unemployed youths in the state.
''The agricultural sector is very lucrative, but youths have neglected this sector largely because of our inability to create opportunities through incentives for farms. We will give them the needed orientation, empowerment, and incentives to enable them go back to farms.
''The provision of the right business environment for investment in merchandise farming shall be our priority,’’ he said.
According to him, agriculture provides opportunity for wealth creation and also improves standard of life.
''We have large cocoa farms in Cross River and we must partner with the producers to improve the production of cocoa in the state. We will set up and maintain a farm city where every farmer will specialise in the production of at least one type of crop.
''Cross River has fertile lands, we produce rice and when it is taken to Ebonyi State for milling, it latter becomes Abakaliki rice,’’ he said.
He said all those leakages would stop as the right people and facilities would be put in place to manage the sector for optimum result.
He also said: ''the same thing goes for our cocoa, it is being taken to Ondo state and when it is being processed and taken abroad it becomes Ondo cocoa’’.
#CrossRiver #Ayade
