Efforts are in top gear to register additional 100,000 farmers, under the Ogun State Farmer Information Management System (OGFIMS), towards enhancing their knowledge and capacities on best agricultural practices.
Commissioner for Agriculture, Hon. Bolu Owotomo, made this known during a workshop on Farmers and Value Chain Actors (VCA) registration exercise, at the Ogun State Economic Transformation Project (OGSTEP) training hall, OPIC Plaza, Oke-Ilewo, Abeokuta, saying the new capturing would bring the total number of registered farmers to 160,000.
Hon. Owotomo noted that the workshop was aimed at training 86 enumerators and supervisors and register them to gather information on farmers to enrich the state’s database.
The Commissioner, while emphasising the importance of accurate registration, stated that the initiative was expected to boost the state’s agricultural sector with comprehensive statistics on farmers and value chain actors, to improve the state’s food security and economic growth.
On her part, the State Coordinator, OGSTEP, Mrs. Mosunmola Owo-Odunsi, explained that the workshop was designed to train enumerators on how to register farmers and VCAs in the OGFIMS.
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Contributing, the team lead, Project consultant, OGFIMS, Mr. Lava Kumar, highlighted that the enumerators would help bring more farmers into the digital platform, linking them with stakeholders in the agricultural sector, adding that the platform would serve as a repository of information and knowledge for farmers in the state
