He holds strong views because he is passionate about his country getting it right on all fronts, particularly in the area of food security. He is in the the academia, and properly positioned where agricultural activities are of major concern. And right in the centre of the efforts to make make rise up and run…
Pa Israel Akinsulure, chairman of Water Works Farmers’ Association, Oke Aro, Ogun State, says that all stakeholders in the management of agriculture must be honest in their activities to enhance official efforts at increasing food production and achieving food security. He spoke with Idowu Michael, our correspondent recently. Q: What are the Challenges you are…
Madam Ademusire Comfort Olufemi produces palm oil. At her production factory in Ilu-Titun Osooro town, Ondo State, she commands a lot of respect and attention. Yet, she does not grow palm trees.what she does is to lease palm plantations from which she would harvest to get materials for her factory. It is,therefore, not surprising that…
Matthew ‘Bayo Temitope is a farmer who also processes pupuru, a local delicacy among the Ikale people in Nigeria. Our man, Johnson Oyeyemi, encountered him during his trip to Ilu Tuntun in the Okiti Pupa local government area of Ondo State. He told him,in this interview, the challenges of farmers and local processors of Pupuru…
Oil palm production is one of the economic activities in the rainforest areas of Nigeria. Though farmers and oil palm producers testify to progress in the methods of planting and production they complain of lack of proper coordination and support by the government. In this interview with our man, JOHNSON OYEYEMI, Mr. Emmanuel Iku-o-penikan, farmer…
He is into this type of farming by choice. There is no doubt that he has a passion for it. And for you to know that all you need do is to listen to him talk about the procedures, the types of snail, the byproducts of his animals and the gains therefrom. For someone who…
Pa Folajimi Israel Akinsulure is from Idanre town, in Idanre local government area of Ondo State. He attended Saint George’s Primary School, Idale, Idanre, after which he proceeded to the Anglican Modern School also in Idale, where he spent just one year. during his first of the three-year course at the Mordern school he applied…
Recently the Lagos State Ministry of Agriculture, acting on behalf of the federal government, gave some inputs to farmers in the state. But some of the farmers are not happy, because some of these inputs are sub-standard. BUSHLINK had an interview with one of the farmers, Pa Folajimi Israel Akinsulure, who is a member of…
Pastor (Otunba) Tola Faseru, Commissioner for Agriculture and Food Security, Osun State is also the President of the African Cashew Alliance, ACA. In this interview with Sultan Bello he speaks about the policies and programmes aimed at boosting Cocoa production and attaining food sufficiency in the state. Excerpts: There was a report that tractors purchased…
Muyideen Abiodun Abdulazeez is not the typical meat seller. He has a private abattoir that is also uniquely different from what you see about town. He is humble, demonstrates deep knowledge of what he is doing and seals that with a high degree of hygiene. Yet, the road to the present was not a bed…
