The Federal Government of Nigeria has opened the rehabilitated 35-hectare Achara-Ubo Emekuku Integrated Farm Estate in Imo State.
It also engaged about 1,000 farmers in the project.
The government said the rehabilitated farm estate, which was abandoned for about 30 years, now has six poultry houses with 18 pens that contain about 15,000 birds, three goat houses with 196 goats and three houses for pigs containing 108 pigs.
Executive Secretary for the National Agricultural Land Development Authority, Paul Ikonne, said in a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday that three solar-powered boreholes, roads, drainage and solar-powered street lights were now on the farm.
Ikonne said the project was in line with the vision of President Muhammadu Buhari to create jobs for the youth and women and ensure food security.
His words, “Achara-Ubo farm is expected to take in 600 farmers, the processing and packaging section will soon start and will take in additional 200 people. The crop section is also set to start because we have provided the tractors.
“This farm will be a centre that will train farmers within and outside Imo State and the 200 beneficiaries have been trained.
“They are the first set of people to benefit from this project and as they pass out in the next six months, they will start their farming activities and another set of people will come.”
