Usang’s appeal “The current Cross River State Government must sustain the industrialization drive of the previous Government especially in the Agriculture Value Chain”.
By Able Winnard
The Cross River State Government has been urged to sustain the agriculture value chain industrialization drive by the previous administration of Sen. Ben Ayade.
His Excellency, Sen. Bassey Edet Otu, the State Governor was urged to ensure the gains of his predecessor in agriculture are built upon.
Leader Ben Usang, Coordinator of Cross River State Civil Society Network made the call recently on Facebook.
Usang’s appeal “The current Cross River State Government must sustain the industrialization drive of the previous Government especially in the Agriculture Value Chain”.
In 2018, Governor Ben Ayade was adjudged as the best-performing governor in the area of Agriculture by BusinessDay Newspaper.
The Newspaper said the award was in recognition of “Ayade’s revolutionary strides in Agriculture.”
The former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Godwin Emefiele hailed Governor Ayade’s agricultural revolution program. He noted that the efforts have made the state a force to be reckoned with.
Emefiele, who spoke at the launch of the 2019 wet season rice farming program at the Ayade Industrial Park in Calabar, was represented by the bank’s Calabar Branch controller, Chuks Sokari. According to him, “the resoluteness to agriculture by Governor Ayade has created hallmarks which the entire world recognizes”.