Oyo ATA office refutes non registration of dry season maize farmers.

The South West Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA) office, Oyo state led by Mr. M.A Lasisi has disagreed with a report in our last edition saying that the state did not register maize farmers for Mr. President dry season farming meant to ensure all the year round food production.

The office in a paper given to us said over a thousand maize farmers’ names were submitted to Abuja stressing the information given at the maize farmers meeting was not correct but rather mis giving about the true position of things thereby insisted on being refuted.  

Food farm news reported that the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development through its maize desk officer, Mr. Unamma Chyka Victor had lamented on the low turnout of farmers for the Mr. President dry season maize cultivation support provision saying the ministry was only able to register about 39,066 farmers as against the expected figure of 400,000 adding only twenty five states with less than 2000 farmers were able to register while Oyo state could not submit any name despite all his efforts to get across to all the states’ chairmen.