Food Security: Abiodun deepens Ogun’s agricultural transformation drive, By Kayode Akinmade
As Nigeria grapples with food affordability and rising agricultural production costs, Ogun State, under Governor Dapo Abiodun, is strengthening efforts to improve food security through targeted support for farmers,…
Nigeria's food inflation has remained a persistent concern in recent years, driven by factors including insecurity in farming communities, high costs of fertiliser and other inputs, logistics bottlenecks, and currency pressures that have raised the price of imported agricultural machinery and chemicals. State governments have increasingly positioned agriculture as a priority sector, both to cushion residents from rising food prices and to diversify internally generated revenue away from dependence on federal allocations.
Ogun State, a major agricultural producer in the southwest known for crops such as cassava, maize, rice and poultry, has over the years run various schemes to support smallholder farmers. The coverage here centres on Governor Dapo Abiodun's administration expanding this push through direct support to a reported 10,000 farmers, mechanisation equipment, digital tools and agro-processing investment. Both outlets credit the same author and draw on the same set of figures, with ThisDay providing more specific detail on the components of the strategy; neither report specifies the full funding source, cost of the programme, or a timeline for measurable impact on food prices in the state.