Rasaq Ibrahim, Ado Ekiti
A NON-PROFIT organisation, organisation, Jaytee Ojo has called on the Federal Government to initiate plans to avert food shortage that may arise after the coronavirus pandemic. Foundation’s president Mr. JayTee Ojo said intervention was necessary to avert a food crisis resulting from the adverse impact of COVID-19. Ojo spoke yesterday while distributing relief materials and providing free treatment for 1,000 persons in Ikoro-Ekiti in Ekiti State. He said food shortage after the pandemic might be inevitable due to the inability of farmers to access farms due to lockdown and unavailability of input. The foundation chief added that the restrictions of movement posed a serious threat for farmers to procure input for planting, saying the pandemic had affected prices of food commodities. Ojo said the government needed to intervene by providing input and easing movement to enable them access farms, adding that this was the time to plant annual and biennial crops.
“We must begin to aggressively tilt our thought process to agriculture for sustainable growth system. Food will become expensive as more people sit at home instead of going to the farms.
The whole world is affected by COVID19 and most countries will not be willing to loan funds as every nation is busy taking care of its people.
“We must embrace agriculture so we can eat what we plant and still make money from sales of the remaining produce. Oil prices are dropping daily meaning less federal allocations and we cannot place the burden on government. ‘
’Jaytee Ojo Foundation will be announcing how it plans to encourage young people to embrace the farms as a means of livelihood.”
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