The Chairman, ODS Global Investment Farms and Company , Alhaji Olaniyi Salami has advised Nigerians to invest in agriculture as crude oil and gas can no longer be sustainable as major revenue earner for the country.
Salami gave this advice during the facility tour of the 50-acre farm land acquired by his company at Onigambari, Ibadan/Ijebu Ode road in Oluyole Local Government Area of Oyo State.
The investor who decried a situation whereby the country continues to spend huge sums to import food despite the availability of vast arable land and enough manpower necessary for self-sufficiency, lamented that importation of food was one of the factors that depleted the country’s foreign reserves.
“My company decided to embark on large scale farming to assist the government in its effort at attaining self-sufficiency in food production and industrial raw materials. The farm, when fully operational, would embark on food processing and also create employment for many people,” he said
Salami who emphasised the need to harness agriculture to boost food production and become less-dependent on food importation, also enjoined government at all levels to give priority to that agriculture sector and appoint competent and practising farmers with relevant experience to man the agriculture ministries.