The Cross River State Governor, Professor Ben Ayade, has called on the Food and Agriculture Organisation, FAO, of the United Nations, to assist the State with financial and technical Support on its agricultural value Chain.
Ayade made the plea in Calabar, while hosting the FAO’s representative in Nigeria, Fred Kateero.
According to the Governor, his administration’s agricultural value chain policy, has resulted in the establishment of various agro- based industries in the local government areas of the state, where raw materials for such industries are in abundance.
On the $65 million intervention, Ayade called on the FAO to allows the state to introduce agricultural value chain beyond cocoa and oil palm.
He said that the millions of dollars should have practical value on Cross River, rather than being spent on workshops, seminars and trainings that used to be the trend in the past.
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On his part, the FAO Representative Kateero said that, he was in Cross River, to interface with the state to know its priority on agric value chain and what FAO can do to help.
He then pledged the FAO’s readiness to assist the state in its agricultural revolution.
Edited by Tunde Orebiyi.
