One of the tractors
Toluwalope Jombo – Akure
Klick Connect Network, a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in Ondo State, has distributed tractors to farmers in Ondo state under the “Cassava Revolution to Ethanol project (CASSAREV).”
The project is aimed at boosting the production of cassava for economic development of the State.
Chief Executive Officer of the organisation, Mr. Alexander Ajipe disclosed this while meeting with the members of the correspondent chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists in Akure.
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“CASSAREV is a value chain programme set up to discover the various benefits that cassava has toward the economic development of the state.”
The CEO further disclosed that CASSAREV was initiated to create the existence of an ethanol factory and contribute to human capital development, while also adding that farmers would benefit immensely from the project.
According to him, 2,434 cassava farmers had been engaged for its first phase of ethanol project proposed to boost the economy of the state.
“We have distributed 10 new tractors to our farmers across the 18 local government in the state. We will also provide herbicides and seedling for them. Their duty is just to supervised the farm. At the end of the day, we buy the cassava from them at international price.
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“We are also going to build modular processing factory in Ore, Igbaraoke and Ifon for the farmers so that they won’t have any problem in terms of processing it”.
“This is a good opportunity for our teaming youth, all what they need is to come to Klick Connect office to register which is free, we will give them all the necessary support from the beginning to the end by providing seedling, tractor, herbicides and other tools including security so that there won’t be any issue with herdsmen. Their duty is just to supervised the farm and during harvesting, we will buy the cassava from them at international price”, he said.
Ajipe however called on youths in Ondo to enroll into the programme because more farmers are still needed across the State.
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