Yayi empowers 2,557 Ogun farmers with modern tools, cash grant

The All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Ogun State, Senator Solomon Adeola, popularly known as Yayi, has empowered another 2,557 farmers across the state with modern farming equipment, agricultural inputs, and cash grants.

This brings the total number of farmers reached through the lawmaker’s YAYI Farmers’ Empowerment Programme to 8,467.

The latest beneficiaries received the support during the flag-off of the second edition of the YAYI Farmers’ Empowerment Programme at the Asade Agunloye Pavilion Ground in Ilaro, Ogun State, on Tuesday, July 28, 2026.

Speaking at the event, Yayi explained that the empowerment programme was designed to address some of the major challenges confronting farmers, including low productivity, limited access to modern farming equipment, the high cost of agricultural inputs, and inadequate financing, while reinforcing efforts to boost agricultural productivity, enhance food security, and improve farmers’ livelihoods across Ogun State.

Yayi said a central management team comprising experienced farmers and cluster leaders would oversee the operation and maintenance of shared equipment to ensure sustainability and maximise the programme’s long-term benefits.

The APC candidate said: “Our farmers remain critical to our survival and national development because without food security, sustainable growth and human wellbeing cannot be achieved.

This second edition of our farmers’ empowerment programme is designed to equip beneficiaries with the tools, resources, and financial support they need to increase productivity, improve their incomes, and contribute meaningfully to Nigeria’s food security objectives.”

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The second edition builds on the maiden programme, which supported about 5,910 farmers through training, mechanized farming equipment, and agricultural inputs.

Beneficiaries of the second edition received agricultural equipment and inputs, including 10 tractors with complete attachments, 250 haulage tricycles, 1,500 knapsack sprayers, 8,000 bags of NPK and urea fertilizers, 1,000 solar- and gasoline-powered water pumps, 1,000 seed planters, and 17 power tillers.

Other items distributed included improved seeds and seedlings, organic liquid fertilizers, agricultural enzymes, pesticides, and basic farm tools.

Each beneficiary also received a N100,000 cash grant to support farming activities and enable them to maximise the use of the equipment and inputs provided.