A 73-year-old farmer, Alhaji Olayinka Adeyemi, has emerged the Overall Best Farmer of the year in Ekiti State, winning N1 million prize.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that Alhaji Olayinka has been in the farming business since 1965.
Chief Afe Babalola, Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), the organiser of Afe Babalola Agricultural Exhibition code named “ABA-EX 2017” gave the prize to the winner Monday at the closing of the exhibition at the Afe Babalola University (ABUAD), Ado Ekiti.
The agric exhibition, where Adeyemi won the prize, was organised by Governor Ayo Fayose of the state.
The septuagenarian was among about 300 other farmers shortlisted for the government exhibition from among leading farmers in all the 16 local government areas of the state.
Two farmers each from the 16 council areas got N150,000 and N100,000 for wining first and second positions at the local level.
Babalola offered to start buying farm produce from farmers in the state.
This, the legal luminary said, would save farmers in the state the agony of produce wastage and loss of profit on their produce due to lack of storage facilities and ready market.
Fayose, who was represented by his deputy, Prof. Kolapo Olusola, thanked Babalola for his intervention in agriculture and education sectors in the state. (NAN)
