Zimbabwean Farmers Arrive Kwara Sept
From Tunde Sanni in Ilorin  ThisdDay  30-08-04

Leaders of Zimbabwe Commercial Farmers Union (ZCFU), Mr. Allan Jack, has disclosed that his team would arrive Kwara State in September.

Jack in an audience before the state Acting Governor, Joel Afolabi Ogundeji, assured that the envisaged white farming would start in earnest.

The Zimbabweans, who just returned from the farming site, expressed satisfaction on the facilities on the ground.

He commended the state government for giving them the opportunity to invest in the state and exuded the hope that the investment would turn around the economic fortune of the state.

Responding, Ogundeji told Jack that government was eager and fully prepared to receive them in the state.

He stated that the hospitality received by the foreign farmers from Kwarans was a testimony of the willingness of the people to absorb them.

The acting governor hoped that the people of the state would gain from the technological experience of the white farmers.

He pointed out the coming of the Zimbabwean farmers to inspect their project site at Ogudu-Tsonga in Edu Local Government area as a demonstration of their readiness to invest in the state.

Ogundeji urged them not to delay the project as the people of the state are anxious to gain from their agricultural experience.

He assured then of necessary support and assistance that would ensure the success of the project.