200 farmers empower by Senator, with agric implements in Ondo state.

Vincent Oyelude

With the efforts to boost food production in Ondo State, the senator representing the state’s Southern Senatorial District, Nicholas Tofowomo, has affirmed the need for the government at all levels to embark on massive road infrastructure in rural areas.

He identified agriculture as one of the major means to reduce poverty and unemployment among youths.

Tofowomo said this in Ile-Oluji, Ile-Oluji/Okeigbo Local Government Area, during the presentation of 200 motorcycles, agricultural implements and other farm inputs to farmers.

He said the distribution of the motorcycles became necessary to ease the challenges of transportation in agricultural businesses in rural communities of Ondo South.

Tofowomo, who said the motorcycles were to ensure easy access to farms, charged them not to commercialise them but to use them for their mobility to farms because of the challenges of transportation.

He lamented that most farmers usually trek long distances to their farms because of bad roads networks leading to their farms, saying the motorcycles could be used to transport some farm products and agricultural inputs with ease. 
 
The lawmaker, who stressed the need to promote agriculture as part of the ways to cushion the effect of hardship in the country, said the distribution of the motorcycles would encourage more youths in the area to embrace agriculture.

He said the support was part of his campaign promises to provide more intervention to improve socio-economic activities and the standard of living of farmers in the district, urging the beneficiaries to make judicious use of the inputs.

Speaking on behalf of the farmers, Mr. Lere Adetoye, who hails from Odigbo in Odigbo Local Government Area of the state, lauded the lawmaker for the gesture to farmers.