Lagos Acquires Land In 3 States For Farming. To Link The SW States With Train

Lagos State Commissioner for Information, Mr Steve
Ayorinde, said that the state government has acquired land
in Ogun, Ondo and Osun states for farming.
Ayorinde told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Port
Harcourt that the land was acquired for large scale
mechanised farming.
The commissioner, who did not disclose the quantity
acquired, said the state was planning to acquire more land
in Oyo state.
Lagos has the smallest land mass in the country, 23 per
cent of that land is water. Lagos decided to acquire land
elsewhere for agriculture.
The decision has to do with economic integration of the
South West states.
Lagos has just been admitted into the ODUA Group,
comprising all the five states in the zone.
What this means is that, if there is economic integration
among the six states in the South West, Lagos with its
financial status can expand in the area of agriculture in
those states,” he said.
According to Ayorinde, the plan is to get Federal
Government`s approval to link the South West states with
train service for effective haulage of agricultural produce.
He said it would be wise to move the produce with train
service because trucks and trailers might not be enough to
do the job.
The commissioner said Lagos and the others in the South
West were considering economic integration through
agriculture and most effective means of evacuating the
produce .