The Federal Government has concluded its plans to revive the moribund Garri Processing Factory in Alapoti Village in the Ado-Odo Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State.
According to a statement made available by the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, the move was in recognition of the agricultural potential of the community, which is the second-largest farm settlement in Ogun State, and a key producer within the cassava value chain in South-West Nigeria.
The ministry said the intervention is deemed necessary because the community has immense potential to be a major supply source of cassava produce to Lagos, and the broader South-West region and other parts of Nigeria.
Mattew Oluwaloni, Alapoti monarch, thanked the ministry for the initiative, which he described as an answered prayer for the village. Oluwaloni said the major challenges and impediments to the economic livelihood of the community include the long-standing reliance on manual and peasant methods for cassava processing due to the absence of a functional mechanised garri processing facility.
The monarch said, “The limitation has significantly hindered the community’s capacity to meet the high demand for staple food across major markets in the area and the southwest in general”.
He then appealed to the federal government to fix the access road to the village which had been in a deplorable condition for years, posing serious challenges in sourcing raw materials and accessing markets for their products.
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