Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has said residents of the state consume N4.5 billion worth of food daily and 50 per cent of beef produced in the country.
He stated this at a sensitisation workshop with the theme “Implementation of Food Systems Transformation Pathways in Nigeria 2022,” organised by the Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning in collaboration with Lagos State Ministry of Agriculture and Lagos Ministry of Economic, Planning and Budget on Food Security.
The governor said although it covers only 0.4 per cent of Nigeria’s territorial land mass, making it the smallest in the country, Lagos accounts for over 60 per cent of industrial and commercial activities. Lagos is a coastal state and has an extremely limited arable land space and is home to about 21 million people.
Sanwo-Olu said, “Its residents consume about N4.5 billion worth of food daily and 50% of beef produced in the country running into several billion in other trading activities with markets cutting across all the local government areas in the state.”
He called for joint collaboration among Southwest geo-political zone to implement the Food Systems Transformation Pathways 2022.
He said that improving the food systems would influence positive changes and as well address multiple challenges being experienced in the country.
“I am aware that the need for states across the six geopolitical zones to be adequately sensitised on the implementation of the National Food Systems Transformation Pathways is the basis for this workshop.
“It gives me great pleasure to note that Lagos State was selected to host the South-West geopolitical sensitisation which I consider as an acknowledgement of the positive impacts our policies and efforts are making in the agricultural sector.
“As a state government, we will continue to provide infrastructure and incentives to support all private sector initiatives where required,” he added.
