Abia to Partner Israeli Agricultural Investors to Boost Food Production

Abia State Governor, Dr. Alex Otti has expressed the willingness of the State Government to partner an Israeli agricultural expert and investors to develop agriculture in the State.

Otti was speaking while receiving in audience a delegation of an Israeli based agricultural investor led by the Managing Director of ONIDA Development, Mr. Kidron Isreal in his office.

He said that the government can provide land, as part of the government’s own equity to the investment.

The Governor directed the delegation to sit down with the government’s team and work out what they could jointly do to fast track the whole process so as to commence as quickly as possible.

He said that the areas of vegetables and fish production are good places to start from while other areas could be explored later.

Governor Otti, who thanked the delegation for coming to Abia said that Abia people are very enterprising and do not rely on government for survival.

“Abia State Government does everything to create an enabling environment for business men and women, including everybody who has one thing or the other to offer to come in.

“We are very friendly to businesses because we are business – oriented and our people are business people.

“Our people don’t care so much about government, once you create the enabling environment for them, for their businesses to do well

Earlier in his speech, the Managing Director ONIDA Development, Mr. Kidron Isreal said they were in Abia to find areas of collaboration with the government to get agriculture in the state to move forward.

“We believe that the State has great potential to develop agriculture. We are looking forward to collaborating with the government and see what we can do together to get agriculture in Abia state to move forward.”

Contributing, the National Coordinator, Nigeria-Israel forum, Mrs. Florence Osuji said they came to introduce Israeli agricultural expertise and technology on how to improve food security, in such areas as fish production, vegetables, poultry among others.