Executive Governor of Bayelsa State, Duoye Diri, has held a “strategic” meeting with Local Government Chairmen with the aim to commence large-scale agricultural production in the State.
The Governor said, the move will bring about food security; he utilized the opportunity of the meeting to charge each Local Government to invest in agriculture, in areas like rice, cassava, poultry etc.
Diri made it “inevitably” clear that, the South-South State has gotten to where it has to “take ownership of its food economy”, and assured, his Government of Assured Prosperity will ensure “enabling policies, access to funding, and technical support”.
Governor Diri posted on X: “In our resolve to achieve food security, today, I held a strategic meeting with Local Government Chairmen on the urgent need to embark on large-scale agricultural production.
“I used the opportunity of the meeting to emphasize the need for each local government area to identify and harness its areas of comparative advantage in agriculture such as rice, plantain, cassava, fruits and vegetables, poultry, aquaculture etc.
“I clearly reiterated that the time has come for Bayelsa to take ownership of its food economy, stressing that a local government-led agricultural revolution is not just desirable but inevitable.
“Our Government of Assured Prosperity will provide enabling policies, access to funding, and technical support through the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources and Ministry of Marine and Blue Economy as well as other relevant ministries as Lands and Survey and Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs to achieve set goals.
“Bayelsa State has all it takes to feed her people.”
