24th December, 2014
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta
Residents of Ogun state, southwest, Nigeria have been assured of sufficient food production as well as food security in the state in the year 2015.
This was revealed on Tuesday by the State Commissioner for Agriculture, Mrs Ronke Sokefun while defending year 2015 budget before the State House of Assembly Committee on Finance and Appropriation at the Assembly Complex, Oke–Mosan Abeokuta.
She hinted that agriculture boost will form the major thrust of ministry’s activities in the coming new year.
Sokefun however disclosed that the Ministry has proposed the sum of N4.690b as total expenditure for 2015 ,which according to her is set to stimulate increase in the production of both plant and animal origin through the cultivation of farmlands.
The Agriculture Commissioner said the capital project in 2015 would gulp N4bn, while N690m had been earmarked for recurrent expenditure with a sum of N350m as revenue target for the next fiscal year.
She noted that on capital project to be executed next year, N11.9m would be expended on purchase of agriculture equipment, just as another N108m was set aside for production of farm seedlings.
Meanwhile, the Ogun State Agriculture Development Corporation said it proposed the sum of N181m as its total budget for 2015.
The agency disclosed that of the amount; N122m was meant for capital projects, while N59m would go for recurrent expenditure.
The agency has revealed that its revenue target for the next fiscal year stands at N175m.