Ogun To Host 40th National Council On Agriculture

 

The 40th National Council on Agriculture and Rural Development will hold in Abeokuta, Ogun State, on the 24^th of June 2013.

The theme of the five-day conference is “Farm to Fork: Developing Agricultural Value Chains to Create Wealth and assure National Food Security.”

Commissioner for Agriculture, Ronke Sokefun in a statement said it will afford stakeholders the opportunity to deliberate and compare notes on happenings in the agricultural sector.

Representatives from the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Permanent Secretaries and Directors of all Ministries of Agriculture and Rural Development at the Federal and State levels are expected to be at the conference, she said.

Sokefun described the conference as the highest agricultural policy making and implementation body in Nigeria.