Anambra State Government has urged residents to adopt safe food and agricultural practices that will promote the general wellbeing of everyone.
The Commissioner for Agriculture, Dr Foster Ihejiofor, made the call during a press briefing in Awka, in commemoration of “World Food Day”.
World Food Day, celebrated on October sixteen every, is aimed at celebrating the promotion of food sufficiency and safety especially, during difficult times.
This year’s World Food Day, which has its theme as “Safe food today for healthy tomorrow”, is the more reason why Anambra State is pioneering the transition from commercial chemical-based agriculture to regenerative agriculture, hence the successful establishment of demo composting centre for the production of biological inputs for Anambra farmers.
According to Dr. Ihejiofor, Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s Agro-Economic Transformation Agenda, aimed at building a secure economic future for Ndi Anambra through re-enacting Dr. Michael Okpala’s Oil Palm Revolution, creation of Anambra State Coconut Economy, and valorisation of redundant vegetative ecosystems, has completed the first phase with the distribution of two hundred and twenty thousand oil palm seedlings and one hundred and fifty thousand Coconut seedlings to Ndi Anambra.
He disclosed that the state is currently mapping out areas for the development of year-round vegetable farms across the twenty-one council areas of the state and once operational, they will produce nutrients-dense local vegetables and crops, grown according to regenerative principles.
Commissioner Ihejiofor, who expressed confidence that the economic future of Anambra State is bright, announced government’s readiness to plant over one million oil palm and coconut seedlings every year, the reactivation of fingerings production tanks across the state for fish ponds and a demo farmer in the ministry with sixteen thousand yam seedlings in bags among numerous achievements in a short period.
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