The Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji, has encouraged Local Governments to make huge investments in the growth of economic crops to ramp up the state's Gross Domestic Product, GDP, to improve the standards of living of the populace. Oyebanji gave the charge in Ikere Ekiti, on Thursday, in Ikere West Local Council Development Area of the state.
'Agriculture and rural development forms a whole pillar in the cardinal objective and policy thrust of Governor Oyebanji's administration and what this LCDA is doing will go a long way in elevating the set standards and focus to help expand the frontiers of plantation agriculture. ' Governor Oyebanji has demonstrated an avowed stand to develop plantation agriculture, with a special focus on the growth of economic trees, by regular distribution of seedlings to farmers.