The Lagos Rice Mill Imota, has produced over 240,127 Bags of 50kg rice and created direct employment for 430 Lagosians, with over 10,000 indirect jobs.
Commissioner for Agriculture and Food Systems, Ms Abisola Olusanya, stated this in her presentation at the 2025 Ministerial Press Briefing marking the sixth year in Office of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
Olusanya explained that to ensure its sustainability, the state government has forged a partnership with various organisations on the production of paddy and technical support.
According to the commissioner, the state provided 800,000 households with subsidized food items under Ounje Eko Food discount Market Project, supported 3,726 poultry and fish farmers with subsidized feeds under Ounje Eko farmers’ Subsidy Programme.
She also said the state government trained 300 youths in Apiculture (bee keeping) and empowered 70,200 beneficiaries across all value chains with agric inputs and production assets.
“The state also constructed farm access roads (13km), 6 jetties, 15 cottage processing centres for farmers across the State under the APPEALS and Lagos CARES projects in collaboration with the World Bank.
Also, the state implemented youth-centric programmes/projects such as the Lagos Agric scholars programme, LASP, Agrinnovation Club/Agrithon Fund and Eko Flavours competition.”
The Commissioner listed other initiatives of the Ministry to include: the Lagos food festival; urban farming Initiative; Eko Agro mechanisation project; the establishment of the aquaculture production and processing centre, LACE, Lagos Agripreneurship programme, among others.
