APPEALS project: Lagos to boost poultry, aquaculture production

R-L: Adedoyin Adesanya, representative of the deputy governor of Lagos; Amin Babandi, national project coordinator, APPEALS Project; Prince Gbolahan Lawal, Commissioner for Agriculture; Olayinka Oluwatoyin, APPEALS Project beneficiary; Ms. Olusanya, special adviser on Agriculture, and Olayiwole Onasanya, permanent secretary, Ministry of Agriculture during the graduation ceremony of the first batch of the APPEALS Lagos youth and women empowerment prolgramme recently in Badagry, Lagos State.

Lagos State is set to boost the country’s poultry and aquaculture production as 350 agripreneurs graduated from the State's Agro-Processing Productivity Enhancement And Livelihood Support (APPEALS) project. The agripreneurs are the first batch of the targeted 1,620 beneficiaries of the Lagos AP

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Josephine Okojie-Okeiyi

Josephine Okojie-Okeiyi is a journalist with over five years’ reporting experience. She writes on industry, agriculture, commodities, climate change, and environmental issues. She is fellow of Thomson Reuters Foundation and Bloomberg Media Initiative for Africa.