Obafemi Awolowo University’s (OAU’s) Faculty of Agriculture has conferred a Distinguished Alumni Award on Aare Egbe-Omo Balogun of Ibadanland, Olooye Adegboyega Adegoke.
The ceremony, at Oduduwa Hall of the university, was part of the 13th Faculty of Agriculture’s lecture and awards: ‘Mitigating Rising Food Prices: The Underlying Issues’, by Dr. Adetunji Oredipe, senior agricultural economist at World Bank.
Dean, Prof. A. Tijani, said the award was in recognition of his donations and projects executed at Faculty of Agriculture.
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Adegoke donated N20 million, which he said must be used to resuscitate Faculty Teaching and Research Farm.
He said “Farming is key to development because if you cannot feed your citizens, why exist as a country?
“The university community should be buying foodstuffs from the faculty at affordable prices, not from outside.’’