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Lagos State Commissioner for Agriculture, Ms. Abisola Olusanya has charged the Agric startups to leverage on technology to provide solutions to the economic challenges and rising cost of food items in the country.

Perishable Market Leaders and Dadinkowa Vegetable Farmers Association in Lagos State could not have had it better if they didn’t have a tete a tete discussion with the Commissioner for Agriculture, Ms. Abisola Olusanya and Permanent Secretary, Mr. Emmanuel Audu on ways to tackle the rising cost of food items in the state, address challenges

Lagos State Ministry of Agriculture and Food Systems recently held a two-day management retreat for staff tagged “Positioning Lagos Food Systems Policy Champions for Effective Service Delivery”. Among issues discussed are measures to address the rising cost of food items, Establishment of Agro Food Hubs and the recently launched Lagos Market Trader Money.

The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, brought smiles to the faces of 15,000 market traders on Valentine’s Day. This gesture aims to improve the state’s food systems and boost business in food markets in the state.

The impact of Empowerment in the lives of Women and Youth in Afowo Community, 30 tonnes of Fishes were harvested at the Pen and Cage Culture at Afowo, Badagry.

The need for Sensitization of our Food Systems’ Champions on modern ways of packaging, storage and Transportation of Agro-produce, will no doubt bring about drastic reduction in food wastage, which is a major setback to a food secured State.

The Honourable Commissioner, Lagos State Ministry of Agriculture and Food Systems, Ms. Abisola Olusanya, and Special Adviser on Agriculture, Dr. Oluwarotimi Fashola, hosted a Breakfast Meeting with Food Systems Stakeholders in Lagos State to officially unveil the Ministry’s proposed programmes and projects for the year 2024 at Protea Hotel, Alausa Ikeja, Lagos, on Thursday, 18th January, 2024. Also,

L-R: Ms. Daisi Osunkoya, Director Fisheries Services, Ministry of Agriculture and Food Systems, Mr Deji Sobowale CEO Sirocco Entertainment, Dr. Oluwarotimi Fashola, Special Adviser to the Governor on Agriculture, Ms. Abisola Olusanya, Hon. Commissioner for Agriculture and Dr. Abdul Rashees Macaulay, Dir. Veterinary Services during the Press Briefing in commemoration of the year 2023 Food Festival at the

collaboration, partnership and a common vision; that is what runs the food systems’ engine. From @FAONigeria presenting its report on feasibility studies conducted on the Lagos Beef value chain, to agro-enterprise players creating a 2nd level banking system under the @LAGOSAPPEALS project cutting across all value chains, and working through comms presentations of @lagosagric1 to