FUNAAB partners Ogun-Guangdong FTX on agro-allied investment

Olusola Oyewole, vice-chancellor, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), has disclosed that the agro-allied university is partnering Ogun-Guangdong Free Trade Zone on agro-allied investment in the key agro-economic areas such as agricultural mechanisation training, trade, cassava production, processing and exports.

Oyewole, who was represented by Akin Omotayo, director of the university – Institute for Food Security, Environmental Resources and Agricultural Research (IFSERAR), when the team of Chinese investors operating in Ogun-Guangdong FTZ undertook a working visit, weekend, to the university, said the university had also received order from China to supply cassava chips.

The vice-chancellor revealed that the agro-allied investment partnership with Ogun-based Chinese FTZ was perfected as a result of tripartite nine memoranda of understanding signed at the recently held Nigeria-China Investment Forum in Beijing among the Chinese investors, Nigeria government and private sector operators.