In its efforts to achieve self-sufficiency in food production, provision of raw materials for agro-based industries, employment generation for improved livelihood of the citizens, Ogun State Ministry of Agriculture says it has spent over N534million within six months.
The Permanent Secretary, Dr. Dotun Sorunke, who represented the Commissioner for Agriculture, Dr. Adeola Odedina, disclosed this while presenting the ministry’s mid-year budget performance assessment before the House of Assembly Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, led by Abiodun Sylvester, at the Assembly complex, Oke-Mosan in Abeokuta.
The expenses, according to Odedina, covered recurrent and capital expenditure.
The commissioner said that within the same period, the ministry generated over N158.7million out of its total approved revenue target of N212.1million for 2021.
He said the revenue was generated through proceeds from licences, cattle tax, registration of business premises, agricultural/veterinary services fees, sales of poultry and arable animals, earnings from agricultural produces, rent on government land, among others.
Speaking about the allocation of agricultural land, he noted that 63 applications were received from corporate and individual applicants requesting for 81 hectares.
Other agencies who took turn to reel out their budget performance reports included Agro Services Corporation, State Agricultural Development Corporation, State Agricultural Development Programme and State Cassava Revolution Programme and State Forest Plantation Project, Area J4..
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