December 22, 2024 - 06:57 PM Africa/Lagos
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Enugu State Government has expressed its readiness to support American investors seeking to mechanise agriculture in the state.
The Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Professor Ebere Onyia, stated this when he hosted a delegation of Praxis Africa, a United States-based company and its Nigerian partners, IAEGO Agro Ventures, at the Government House, Enugu.
Onyia said the investors could not have come at a better time as the state government was doing a lot in the area of bankable projects across various sectors of the state’s economy.
“We are looking at investing massively in agriculture across the value chain and we want to do that in large clusters. And this will be in the areas we have comparative advantage. So, we are hoping that through what you are doing with IAEGO, we will be able to upscale agriculture in the state,”, Onyia said.
He added: “This is a serious government. We believe that whatever we can do to support you from the thought process to the actual execution, will be done. We believe that this will be good for the business perspective and in the interest of the good people of Enugu State.”
The traditional ruler of Nara Unateze and chairman, IAEGO Agro Ventures, Igwe Ifeanyi Ogbu, told the SSG that Praxis Africa in collaboration with their organisation, was currently exploring ways to jointly boost agriculture in the state by investing massively in mechanization and funding of farm activities across the 17 local government areas of the state.
“So, Enugu State will benefit tremendously. We are starting with Nara as the pilot area, and we will move to all 17 local government areas in Enugu State and the entire country. We already have over 25,000 hectares from which we can work.
“We are also going to talk to other communities around Nara, like Ihuokpara, Igboaka, Amagunze, and anywhere we can get land”, the monarch said.
Also, at a reception in his honour in palace of the monarch, the visiting Founder/President of Praxis Africa, Dr. Delore Zimmerman, who spoke on the areas his company will be investing in, expressed optimism that the partnership will yield tremendous results that will turn around the agricultural fortunes of Enugu State and Nigeria as a whole.
“We are working with our partners here, IAEGO Agro Ventures. We are going to be bringing more mechanisation to agriculture and more funding. Our company, Praxis Africa, started in Ghana in 2009, and we are also in Liberia. We are in Rwanda and Tanzania. We are just coming into Nigeria, and it’s all about agriculture,” he said.
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