Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo has flagged-off the state's 2023 farming season.
The Governor performed the function at Dr. Alex Ekwueme Square, Awka where farmers from nooks and crannies of the state converged and displayed various farm produce such as cassava stems, bags of rice, cocoanut trees, palm trees, corns, vegetables, live stocks, plantain stems and farm implements.
The event has the theme “Biological Farming: Nature’s Sustainability Solution”.
Governor Soludo who was represented by the Deputy Governor, Dr. Onyekachukwu Ibezim assured of supporting farmers across the state, to ensure food sufficiency.
The Governor reiterated that agriculture is one of the formidable pillars of the present government because of its attendant benefits including economic emancipation, job creation, food security, among others.
While recommending regenerative and biological agriculture as the panacea to food safety and environment sustainability, the Governor pointed out that the annual distribution of one million coconut and palm seedlings' initiative of his administration gears towards presenting palm oil and coconut as the new crude oil.
He expressed optimism that through the initiative, young people will be engaged, thereby reducing criminality to the barest minimum.
The Commissioner for Agriculture, Dr. Foster Ihejiofor stated that Governor Soludo's government has succeeded in putting measures in place for sustainable agricultural practices in the state, with the three basic pillars of suitability to the people, ability to protect environment and economic opportunities they will provide.
Commissioner Ihejiofor observed that biological farming is both environmentally friendly and economically viable to farmers due to its cost effectiveness and improvement of soil, plant health, nutrients fence, tasty crop yields, animal and human health, among others, urging more farmers to key into that system of farming.
The event was attended by Chief of Staff to the Governor, Mr. Ernest Ezeajughi, Traditional Rulers led by Chairman, Anambra State Traditional Rulers' Council, Igwe Nnaemeka Achebe, President General, Anambra State Association of Town Unions, Barr. Titus Akpudo, among others.
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