The Senate Leader, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, has declared that the Senate would support efforts of President Bola Tinubu towards Nigeria achieving food security status.
Bamidele noted that the Federal Government was investing in agriculture to reduce food prices and banish hunger and poverty.
The Senate leader said this in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday, while empowering some farmers with modern implements to boost food production in the state.
Items distributed include one big tractor, 10 power tillers, and cartons of liquid fertilizers.
The Senate leader, represented by an aide, Mr Remi Oguntuase, pledged continued support for the well-being of farmers, not only in his district, but across the state.
Bamidele said the empowerment was in tandem with the cardinal objectives of Tinubu’s administration and the Ekiti State government under Governor Biodun Oyebanji to make life meaningful for the people.
“This gesture is to improve food production in Ekiti State. Improved food production will help in stamping out hunger and poverty among our people,” he said.
“The implements we are donating are modern ones, we need to improve our methods of production. We can’t continue to do things the old ways.
“I appreciate President Tinubu and Governor Oyebanji’s commitments to improving agriculture in Nigeria and Ekiti State through adequate support to our farmers.
“This is the line every level of government must follow because over 60% of our population depends on agriculture.”
Meanwhile, farmers have been told to ensure proper use of empowerment equipment to improve food production in the state.
The Ekiti State Commissioner for Agriculture and Food Security, Ebenezer Boluwade, said a judicious use of the equipment will justify the purpose of ensuring an increase in food production in Ekiti.
The gesture, according to the Commissioner, was to improve the farming methods and expand commercial farming in the state.
The commissioner advised the farmers that regular servicing of the equipment would ensure longer use and efficiency.
