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January 26, 2017

Agric/investment workshop kicks off in Edo

No fewer than 50 agric-based entrepreneurs, including investors,  will arrive Benin City, Edo State, today for a 3-day agriculture/investment workshop.

Interim Chief Press Secretary to Edo State Governor, Mr. John Mayaki, said Governor  Godwin Obaseki announced this when he received in audience, the management of a private radio station,  in Benin City.

Governor Obaseki said the purpose of the workshop   was to examine specific opportunities that existed in agriculture and how Edo people could key into it and stimulate the state’s economic revolution.

He noted that ahead of the workshop, the state government had gone round the state to put together a land bank of more than 250,000 hectares.