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The
Commercial Agriculture Development Project (CADP)
has perfected plans to host stakeholders in the Agricultural sector in an
interactive forum in Lagos.
The state
project coordinator, Kehinde Ogunyinka informed NaijaAgroNet that the forum is aimed at showcasing the results
and impacts of CADP on small-medium commercial farmers in the State and to
attract both local and foreign investors.
Ogunyinka
listed some the projects by the Lagos State Commercial Agriculture Development
Project (CADP) to include 22.19 km rural roads in 10 locations, provision of
transformers, extension lines and accessories and another 12.83 km rural roads
that is ongoing in six other farming locations in Lagos State.
He said that CADP has supported
331 commodity interest groups engaged in poultry, rice and aquaculture value
chains in the execution of their business plans to the tune of N657.487 million
in Lagos State.
NaijaAgroNet gathered that the forum has been scheduled for Wednesday
18, September, 2013 at Johnson Agiri Complex in Oko Oba, Agege in Lagos.
Also, NaijaAgroNet gathered that the forum will attract over one hundred and forty participants which
will include small and medium scale rice, poultry and aquaculture farmers, processors,
marketers, financial Institutions, community leaders and Non-governmental
Organizations, state policy makers, representatives of the World Bank, members
of the House Committee on Agriculture and the media.NaijaAgroNet
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Pix: Gov. Tunde Fashola of Lagos State
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