Oyo State Governor Engineer, Oluseyi Makinde has pledged to give agricultural development priority attention as part of the state growth agenda.
The two-day workshop organised by Dr. Lilian Otaye-Ebede and Dr. Olatunde Durowoju on behalf of Liverpool John Moores University forms part of the remit of the Global Challenge Research Fund to tackle the challenges faced by developing countries. One of the key themes that emerged from deliberations in the workshop was a need to urgently assess extension services through public and/or private partnerships in order to ameliorate the lack of funds and capacity that have plagued that sector of the value chain.
Therefore, farmers should be engaged from the idea generation phase all through to the prototype testing phase.