The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, has directed the State Ministry of Agriculture to commence and ensure the non-stop sale of Lake Rice in all the designated sales centres across the State just as he approved the creation of more sales points.

Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr. Oluwatoyin Suarau, who disclosed this at the weekend in Lagos while reviewing ways of carrying out the governor’s directive, noted that the order was part of the strategy to increase access to the product and ensure effective distribution of the rice across the state.

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He said that the newly created sales centres aside the existing designated centres in the 57 Local Governments and Local Council Development Areas in the state that would be used for the non-stop sales of the products are: Farm Service Centre Odogunyan-Ikorodu; Farmers Mart Surulere; Lagos Agric Input Supply Authority, LAISA, Ojo; Agricultural Development Authority, ADA, Oko Oba, Agege and Lagos Television, LTV, Complex, Agidingbi-Ikeja.

While assuring that the state government would do the needful to ensure the continuous availability of the product in both existing and new sales centres, Suarau said that work was in progress to ensure adequate supply of the product across the state.