Lagos State Governor, South-West Nigeria, Babajide Sanwo-Olu says residents of the state consume about N4.5bn worth of food daily.
Gatekeepers News reports that Sanwo-Olu said this at the opening ceremony of a two-day zonal sensitisation workshop in Lagos State.
The workshop was 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.
Lagos, Oyo, Ogun, Ondo, Osun and Ekiti are participating with Lagos as coordinating state for southwest geopolitical zone.
Sanwo-Olu was represented by the Commissioner for Economic, Planning and Budget, Sam Egube.
He said the state had decided to take the bull by the horn in guaranteeing food security for people with different agricultural and food value chain.
Sanwo-Olu said, “It accounts for over 60% of industrial and commercial activities. Lagos is a coastal state and has an extremely limited arable land space and home to about 21 million people.
“Its residents consume about N4.5bn worth of food daily and 50% of beef produced in the country running into several billions in other trading activities with markets cutting across all the local government areas in the state.”
