Emulate Guanah Farms: Onuesoke urges Deltans

Chief Sunny Onuesoke, chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party in Delta state has called on Deltans to emulate Hon. Raymos Guanah, Director of Guanah Farms Limited to cushion the effect of the economic recession that is currently bedeviling the country as a result of the misrule of the All Progressives Congress APC misrule.

Onuesoke who made this known in Patani, Delta state, said emulating Guanah Farms Limited will help Nigerians especially Deltans to have a shift in our monoculture economy by diversifying from over reliance on crude oil especially at this time that the price plummet, which is seriously affecting the economy negatively.

He said, “Agriculture will provide food and raw materials for the Nigeria teaming population and the development of the manufacturing sector, which in turn will also discourage heavy dependence on importation. The sector is also capable of reducing the country's level of unemployment on the account that the sector is labour intensive.”

According to him, “now that the APC has nothing to offer Nigerians, emulating Hon. Guanah, a notable farmer in Delta state will curb the effect of rural-urban migration which will help to decongest the urban areas and make life easier for people both in the rural or urban area.”

“Agriculture can help the government to make more effort in developing the degrading infrastructural facilities throughout the nation in attempt to ease movement of goods from one location to the other, likewise for preservation of Agricultural output. Agriculture sector will also help in improving other sectors and thereby curbing the level of the existing corruption in the country”, Onuesoke said.

Onuesoke pointed out that the relatively diverse variety of climatic conditions in Nigeria makes it possible to raise a wide range of crops like beans, cashew nuts, cassava, cocoa beans, groundnut, gum Arabic, kola nuts, maize, melon, millet, oil palm, plantain, banana, rice, rubber, sorghum, soya beans, pineapples, cherry, citrus and yams across the country, saying that the climate varies from the desert like and savannah climate in the north and central regions to the thick rain forests of the southern region.