The Director of Agriculture Services, Sir Alex Addingi Foundation (SAAF), Mr Sam Agwa, has pledged the commitment of the foundation to make Benue an oil palm hub.
Agwa made the promise during the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between SAAF and the National Orientation Agency (NOA) on Wednesday in Makurdi.
The director further disclosed that the foundation would achieve its target by ensuring that individuals, institutions and corporate bodies engaged in massive planting.
“This is the reason we have signed MoU with NOA so that it will assist in the area of information dissemination and sensitisation of the public to the need to plant oil palms.
“NOA will also serve as a channel that will ensure that the oil palm seedlings reach the doorsteps of all the 23 Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Benue.
“SAAF will fund all the cost of disseminating information to the public and other logistics support to NOA,” Agwa said.
He further said that NOA would source for suitable locations to enable occasional placement of seedlings for access by interested citizens across the state.
Meanwhile, the state Director of NOA, Mr Joseph Ijir, has described the idea and the philosophy behind the initiative as wonderful and expressed hope that it would benefit the people.
“This is how Malaysia started and today it is better off with it.
“SAAF has come out with this laudable programme and we are going to help propagate it in all the 23 LGAs to ensure its success. nan.”
