Beneficiaries of Anambra State Government Oil Palm and Coconut Seedlings have pledged to support the initiative to facilitate optimal productivity across the state.
Some stakeholders, including principals of secondary schools and heads of institutions where these seedlings were planted, made the commitment when an inspection team from the state ministry of Agriculture, visited their offices to ascertain the performance of the seedlings.
In their separate comments, the Vice Principal, Community Secondary School, Ajalli, Mr. Ben Madu, expressed joy that his school recorded success through adoption of good planting techniques.
According to him, constant caring for the plants guaranteed survival, as they hoped to make income from the produce.
For Principals of Holy Cross High School, Umuawulu/Mbaukwu, Mrs. Amaka Anekwe and her Community Secondary School Awgbu counterpart, Sister Stella-Mary Nwafor, they will sustain strategies to ensure the survival of the seedlings at all cost.
They lauded government for supplying them with the seedlings that were aimed at transiting from oil to Agric economy and noted that in less than four years, there will be mass coconut production in the state.
Commending them for their efforts, the state commissioner for Agriculture, Dr Foster Ihejiofor, who spoke through his Technical Assistant and Leader of the Inspection Team, Mr. Ifeanyi Nwaegbo, reiterated government’s commitment to continuing to strengthen measures intended to boost the productivity of the produce.
He thanked all the schools, institutions and communities that recorded immense success, and called for more efforts from other beneficiaries to ensure the survival of the seedlings as government spent so much to procure them.
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