The Ogun State government has empowered fifty four (54) poultry
farmers with a total of 54,000 day old chicks that are projected to give a
dividend of N130, 000.00 per head after forty two days of proper feeding as 46
people out of these numbers have been given loan of Nine hundred thousand also.
This was contained in a press release made available to us.
It was stated that
Ogun state government is very determined to create employment for the youths
through agriculture as each beneficiary of these day old chicks would within 42
days of feeding their 1,000 birds earn a minimal profit of about ₦130,000 per
cycle of production for each person. 
The statement added that there is the provision for buy-back
through the off-takers like Amobyn Farms Limited, Bank of
Industry (BOI) and Farmermoni Loan Program for Agriculture.
Special Adviser to
the Governor on Agriculture, Dr. Adeola Odedina who led the stock taking team
from the state mandate ministry to Odeda Training farm Institute noted that the
empowerment exercise was made possible through Public Private Partnership (PPP)
arrangement as government was the one who provided necessary poultry
infrastructure for the production of the chicks that were distributed to empower
the farmers. 
It was noted in the statement that the Ministry of
Agriculture is providing technical support for the project which was designed
to meet the demand for poultry meat, reduce importation of frozen poultry
products and also create source of livelihood for young agripreneurs through
cluster farming, noted that the expected output of between 216,000 to 324,000
broiler birds per annum will reduce importation of livestock products into the
country, thereby increasing the State’s Internally Generated Revenue.
The success of the pilot phase will lead to replication in
other two senatorial districts of the State towards engaging over 500
agripreneurs with an estimated output of over 800,000 broiler birds per annum
according to the statement.
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