Lagos State Launches A 5-Year Agricultural Development Roadmap

With the Theme developmental agenda, Lagos State Government on thursday, 22nd April, 2021 launched a 5-Year Agricultural Development Roadmap.

The State Commissioner for Agriculture, Ms. Abisola Olusanya explained that the Roadmap would help the State achieve its goal of making Lagos a 21st Century Economy.

According to Olusanya, the Roadmap is focused on the development of agricultural value chains where the State has competitive and comparative advantages to ensure that the State attains its food security goals.

The Agricultural Development Road Map was conceived by the Ministry of Agriculture as a direct outcome of the present administration’s THEMES developmental agenda particularly the 4th pillar of Making Lagos State a 21st Century Economy by ensuring that the Agricultural Sector plays the role of ensuring sustainable food security.

“Its focus is on the development of agricultural value chains where the State has competitive and comparative advantages to ensure that the State’s self-sufficiency in food production moves from 18% to 40% of food needs in the next five years and thus ensure that Lagos State achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as it relates to the sector,” she noted.

According to her, the road map highlights intervention areas by the Ministry to boost agricultural productivity at the upstream, midstream and downstream sectors of seven value chains and services  bearing in mind the comparative advantages Lagos State has in these sectors.