Friday 17 October 2014

Farmers, Youth, Women gets Empowerment as Lagos Celebrates World Food Day

The Lagos State Government under the administration of Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola continues to show Lagosians that its Government is people oriented as it celebrates the 2014 World Food Day with hopes for some of its citizens. This information was shared in the states' publication, "Lagos Indicator".




Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola, SAN on Thursday led Lagosians to commemorate the 2014 World Food Day, where the State also empowered 3,149 small scale farmers, youths, women and the vulnerable through its Agricultural Value Chain Empowerment programme.

The beneficiaries include 73 egg producers, 754 people who got 50 crates of eggs for marketing, 250 poultry farmers who got 40 bags layers mash, 30 people provided with 1,000 kg of maize, 60 kg cat fish for 296 fish marketers, 152 others who got outboard engines and 152 who received bundle nets, 295 people went home with 10 bags of pig feed each, 40 who had 10 bags of sheep and goat feed, 305 who received Personal Protective Equipment and 48 butchers who got meat processing accessories . Read more at The Online Version of the Lagos Indicator.


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